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invention

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of invention

1 something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination

  • his clever invention made peopleʼs lives easier
Synonyms of invention

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

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

design, product, work

dream, fantasy (also phantasy), picture, vision

conception, imagining, origination
Near Antonyms of invention

carbon copy, clone, copy, dupe, duplicate, duplication, facsimile, imitation, reduplication, replica, replication, reproduction

2 something that is the product of the imagination

  • unsurprisingly, the story about being kidnapped by aliens was pure invention
Synonyms of invention

fable, fabrication, fantasy (also phantasy), fiction, figment
Words Related to invention

anecdote, narrative, novel, story, tale, yarn

fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, untruth, whopper

make-believe
Near Antonyms of invention

actuality, realness
Antonyms of invention

fact, materiality, reality

3 the ability to form mental images of things that either are not physically present or have never been conceived or created by others

  • a writer with great invention, she is able to create on the page worlds that donʼt exist but certainly seem like they could
Synonyms of invention

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

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 invention

literality, literalness

4 the skill and imagination to create new things

  • a person of seemingly endless invention, Thomas Edison held a world-record 1,093 patents
Synonyms of invention

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

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

capableness, resourcefulness

genius, giftedness, talent

fire, inspiration, muse
Near Antonyms of invention

dryness, dullness (also dulness)

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