Entry Word: creativity

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 the skill and imagination to create new things <the arts and crafts fair showed the remarkable creativity of local artists and artisans>

Synonyms creativeness, imaginativeness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, invention, inventiveness, originality

Related Words resourcefulness; fecundity, fertility, fruitfulness, productiveness, productivity; freshness, newness, novelty; genius, inspiration, talent

Near Antonyms dryness, dullness (also dulness)

2 the ability to form mental images of things that either are not physically present or have never been conceived or created by others <while his imaginary friend is a little annoying, you have to admire his creativity in thinking her up> — see imagination