English > creative thinking: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | The ability to create. |
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| Synonyms | creativity, creativeness |
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| Attributes | creative, originative | Having the ability or power to create |
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| uncreative | not creative |
| Parts | divergent thinking, out-of-the-box thinking | thinking that moves away in diverging directions so as to involve a variety of aspects and which sometimes lead to novel ideas and solutions |
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| Narrower | fecundity, fruitfulness | The intellectual productivity of a creative imagination / imagination |
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| flight | Passing above and beyond ordinary bounds |
| genius, wizardry | exceptional creative ability |
| imagination, imaginativeness, vision | The formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses |
| invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design | The creation of something in the mind |
| inventiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, cleverness | The power of creative imagination / imagination |
| Broader | ability, power | possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done |
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| Opposite | uncreativeness | A lack of creativity |
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| Spanish | creatividad, inventiva |
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| Catalan | creativitat, inventiva |
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