creativity

The ability to use imagination to produce a novel idea or product.

Noun

  1. The ability to use imagination to produce a novel idea or product.
    • I suppose it's part of my creativity and may also be just a desire to, maybe an idea that there is a wonderful way to do it, and that I'm working toward the wonderful way to do it. - 1994, Cheryl L. Sattler, Talking...
    • Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation. - 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0 – 1...

    Synonyms: creativeness originality

Origin

Etymology tree English creative Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English creativity From creative + -ity.

Forms

creativities

Related

create creatify creation creative creatively creativeness creativize genius often associated with creativity

Derived

anticreativity cocreativity hypercreativity noncreativity uncreativity