Entry Word: invention

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination <his clever invention made peopleʼs lives easier>

Synonyms coinage, concoction, contrivance, creation, innovation, wrinkle

Related Words contraption, device, gadget, gizmo (or gismo), novelty; design, product, work; dream, fantasy (also phantasy), picture, vision; conception, imagining, origination

Near Antonyms copy, duplicate, imitation

2 something that is the product of the imagination <the story about being kidnapped by aliens was pure invention> — see fiction
3 the ability to form mental images of things that either are not physically present or have never been conceived or created by others <a writer with invention, she is able to create on the page worlds that donʼt exist but certainly seem like they could> — see imagination
4 the skill and imagination to create new things <a person of seemingly endless invention, Thomas Edison held a world-record 1,093 patents> — see creativity 1