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contrivance

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of contrivance

1 an interesting and often novel device with a practical use
  • a new contrivance for cleaning computer keyboards
Synonyms of contrivance

appliance, contraption, gadget, gimmick, gizmo (also gismo), jigger, widget
Words Related to contrivance

implement, instrument, tool, utensil

accessory (also accessary), adjunct

mechanism, trick

dingus, doodad, doohickey, hickey, thingamabob, thingamajig (or thingumajig), thingummy
2 something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination
  • Despite the many modern contrivances for saving time and labor, we seem to have less leisure and energy than ever before.
Synonyms of contrivance

brainchild, coinage, concoction, creation, innovation, invention, wrinkle
Words Related to contrivance

contraption, device, gadget, gizmo (also gismo), novelty

design, product, work

dream, fantasy (also phantasy), picture, vision

conception, imagining, origination
Near Antonyms of contrivance

carbon copy, clone, copy, dupe, duplicate, duplication, facsimile, imitation, reduplication, replica, replication, reproduction
3 the ability to form mental images of things that either are not physically present or have never been conceived or created by others
  • In that writer's hands, narrative contrivance can often deteriorate into pointless gimmickry.
Synonyms of contrivance

creativity, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), ideation, imagination, imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness, originality
Words Related to contrivance

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 of contrivance

literality, literalness

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