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 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)

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 contrivance, imagination, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), ideation, imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness, originalityRelated 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, visualizationNear Antonyms literality, literalness