invention

invention

noun

Definition of INVENTION

1

something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination <his clever invention made people's lives easier>

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

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

Near Antonyms carbon copy, clone, copy, dupe, duplicate, duplication, facsimile, imitation, reduplication, replica, replication, reproduction

2

something that is the product of the imagination <unsurprisingly, the story about being kidnapped by aliens was pure invention>

Synonyms fable, fabrication, fantasy (also phantasy), figment, invention

Related Words anecdote, narrative, novel, story, tale, yarn; fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, untruth, whopper; make-believe

Near Antonyms actuality, realness

Antonyms fact, materiality, reality

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 great invention, she is able to create on the page worlds that don't exist but certainly seem like they could>

Synonyms contrivance, creativity, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), ideation, imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness, originality

Related Words brainstorm, brainstorming, inspiration; fecundity, fertility; ingenuity, resourcefulness; versatility; chimera, daydream, delusion, dream, figment, hallucination, illusion, mind's eye, mirage, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream; envisaging, visualization

Near Antonyms literality, literalness

4

the skill and imagination to create new things <a person of seemingly endless invention, Thomas Edison held a world-record 1,093 patents>

Synonyms cleverness, creativeness, imagination, imaginativeness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, innovativeness, invention, inventiveness, originality

Related Words fecundity, fertility, fruitfulness, productiveness, productivity, prolificacy, prolificity, prolificness; capableness, resourcefulness; genius, giftedness, talent; fire, inspiration, muse

Near Antonyms dryness, dullness (also dulness)