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Synonyms & Antonyms of contrivance
1
an interesting and often novel device with a practical use
- a new contrivance for cleaning computer keyboards
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- dingus,
- doodad,
- doohickey,
- hickey,
- hootenanny
- [chiefly dialect],
- 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
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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
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The first known use of contrivance was circa 1628
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