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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being inventive; the faculty of inventing.

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  • noun The quality of being inventive; the faculty of inventing.

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  • noun the power of creative imagination

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Examples

  • Your inventiveness is admirable, but some of the recent ones are not really Venn diagrams.

    Magic 8-ball says: go for it. Jessica Hagy 2006

  • Morrow’s inventiveness is beguiling, as are his delight in Western philosophy and his concern for the sorry state of the world.

    The Philosopher's Apprentice by James Morrow: Book summary 2010

  • I am amazed by the abilities of bloggers like Norbizness, General J.C. Christian, and The Commissar who have raised the level of satire, parody, and just plain inventiveness to a level I can only marvel at.

    I'm Not That Good 2007

  • This spirit of inventiveness is not limited to art.

    Marianne Carlson and the Maestros del Arte 2006

  • Human inventiveness is unlimited and while we should try to make fraud harder to commit we will never be able to eliminate it.

    2006 Investment Outlook 2006

  • This spirit of inventiveness is not limited to art.

    Marianne Carlson and the Maestros del Arte 2006

  • Underlying the wit and visual inventiveness is an unmistakable moral: that the dehumanizing architecture of the sort seen in Russian cities in the 1980s and 1990s, and elsewhere around the globe, takes a sinister toll.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • Underlying the wit and visual inventiveness is an unmistakable moral: that the dehumanizing architecture of the sort seen in Russian cities in the 1980s and 1990s, and elsewhere around the globe, takes a sinister toll.

    Brodsky & Utkin 2005

  • Whatever its faults, no other system even comes close to it in inventiveness, productiveness, and in the achievement of widespread distribution.

    Corporate Power and Public Purpose 1983

  • Obviously, once again, Nature has preceded man in inventiveness and may help him with her millions of years of experience in his daily struggle for life.

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1978 - Presentation Speech 1978

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