Inventiveness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inventive \In*vent"ive\, a. [Cf. F. inventif.]
     Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at
     expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. --Dryden. --
     {In*vent"ive*ly}, adv. -- {In*vent"ive*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inventiveness
       n : the power of creative imagination [syn: {ingeniousness}, {ingenuity},
            {cleverness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "inventiveness":
     Italian hand, acuteness, art, artfulness, artifice, astuteness,
     authenticity, cageyness, callidity, canniness, cleverness, craft,
     craftiness, creativeness, creativity, cunning, cunningness,
     fecundity, fertile mind, fertility, fine Italian hand, finesse,
     foxiness, freshness, gamesmanship, guile, ingeniousness, ingenuity,
     innovation, insidiousness, invention, newness, nonimitation,
     novelty, one-upmanship, originality, pregnant imagination,
     productivity, prolificacy, readiness, resourcefulness,
     satanic cunning, sharpness, shiftiness, shrewdness, slipperiness,
     slyness, sneakiness, sophistry, stealth, stealthiness, subtilty,
     subtleness, subtlety, suppleness, teeming imagination, trickiness,
     uniqueness, wariness, wiles, wiliness, wit