Inventiveness

Definitions

The quality of being inventive; the faculty of inventing.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: resourcefulness, creativity, imagination”

“For as was the land⟳, such was the art of it while folk yet troubled themselves about such things; it strove little to impress⟳ people either by pomp or ingenuity: not unseldom it fell into commonplace, rarely it rose into majesty; yet was it never oppressive, never a slave’s nightmare or an insolent boast: and at its best it had an inventiveness, an individuality, that grander styles have⟳ never overpassed: […]”

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