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creativity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of creativity

1 the skill and imagination to create new things

  • the arts and crafts fair showed the remarkable creativity of local artists and artisans
Synonyms of creativity

cleverness, creativeness, imagination, imaginativeness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, innovativeness, invention, inventiveness, originality
Words Related to creativity

fecundity, fertility, fruitfulness, productiveness, productivity, prolificacy, prolificity, prolificness

capableness, resourcefulness

genius, giftedness, talent

fire, inspiration, muse
Near Antonyms of creativity

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
Synonyms of creativity

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

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 creativity

literality, literalness

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