improvisation

The act or art of composing and making music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously

Noun

  1. The act or art of composing and making music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously
    • He played a quick improvisation on the keyboard.
  2. That which is improvised; an impromptu.
  3. Musical technique, characteristic of blues music.
  4. The act of improvising, acting or going about something without planning ahead
    • The Ivorian is a player with such a liking for improvisation it does not usually look like he has any more idea than anyone else what he is going to do next, so it was an interesting choice. - 2012 September 15, Amy...

Origin

From French improvisation. Morphologically improvise + -ation.

Forms

improvisations

Derived

improvisational