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innovativeness

noun

as in creativeness
the skill and imagination to create new things a surprising new product from a company that has never been a wellspring of innovativeness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for innovativeness
  1. creativeness
  2. creativity
  3. imagination
  4. ingenuity
  5. inventiveness
  6. imaginativeness
  7. talent
Noun
  • But without freedom, Berdyaev writes, creativeness is impossible.
    — Andrew McDiarmid, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
Definition of creativeness
Noun
  • The Aries Full Moon activates your playful 5th house, bringing creativity, romance, self-expression, or a personal passion into sharper focus.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026
  • In their writing, Alicia and Luci bring a marketer’s eye and a business owner’s perspective to entrepreneurship, creativity, and building a life on your own terms.
    — Alicia Sanchez, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of creativity
Noun
  • Perfect circles, balls, spheres adrift somewhere in her imagination.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
  • That was left up to the unnamed sources and the internet's imagination.
    — Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of imagination
Noun
  • The scope and ingenuity of scrying continually boggle the mind.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Detroit won 31-29, but the lopsided blow-by-blow revealed the ingenuity of their staffs and players.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Definition of ingenuity
Noun
  • There’s an inventiveness here that comes from the sprawl of the city — artists like myself who are constantly improvising, building their own ecosystems because nothing is handed to them.
    — Shelley Holcomb, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
  • But far from being a joy-killer, she’s guided by inventiveness and levity.
    — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of inventiveness
Noun
  • There's also a palpable new seam of imaginativeness among residents.
    — Toby Skinner, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Nov. 2024
Definition of imaginativeness
Noun
  • Her session will examine the commercial and strategic considerations involved in taking creative and technology-led projects from development to market, alongside the evolving relationship between talent, technology and business.
    — Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 29 Sep. 2026
  • And talent with a liberal arts education—reading- and writing-heavy disciplines spanning humanities, natural sciences, sociology, and the arts—will have the most well-rounded skill set to thrive.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of talent
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“Innovativeness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/innovativeness. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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