Meanings
creativity1
nouncreativity (countable and uncountable, plural creativities)
plural creativities
- countableuncountableThe ability to use imagination to produce a novel idea or product.
Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.
2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0 – 1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 04 Nov 20162 more examples
I suppose it's part of my creativity and may also be just a desire to, maybe an idea that there is a wonderful way to do it, and that I'm working toward the wonderful way to do it.
1994, Cheryl L. Sattler, Talking about a Revolution, The Politics and Practice of Feminist Teaching, page 134It made me feel a little nauseous but was great for powering through boring tasks. It did not, however, do anything for my creativity or improve my thinking in any way.
2019 August 5, Arwa Mahdawi, “Self-hypnosis, amphetamines? I tried eight hacks in my quest to be more productive”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2019Synonyms: creativeness, originality
Creativity2
proper noun
- A nontheistic religion based on religious naturalism and white racialism.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe ability to use imagination to produce a novel idea or product.
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Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱer-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱreh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱreh₁eh₂yéti
- Proto-Italic[Term?]
- Latincreō
- Latincreātīvus
- Englishcreative
- Englishcreativity
Translations
Afrikaans kreatiwiteit
- kreatiwiteitquality or ability to create or invent something
Arabic إِبْدَاع
- إِبْدَاع (ʔibdāʕ)quality or ability to create or invent something
Catalan creativitat
- creativitatquality or ability to create or invent something
Chinese Mandarin 創造力 /创造力, 創造性 /创造性
- 創造力 /创造力 (chuàngzàolì)quality or ability to create or invent something
- 創造性 /创造性 (chuàngzàoxìng)quality or ability to create or invent something
Czech tvořivost
- tvořivostquality or ability to create or invent something
Danish kreativitet, skaberevne
- kreativitetquality or ability to create or invent something
- skaberevnequality or ability to create or invent something
Dutch creativiteit
- creativiteitquality or ability to create or invent something
Estonian loovus
- loovusquality or ability to create or invent something
Finnish luovuus
- luovuusquality or ability to create or invent something
French créativité
- créativitéquality or ability to create or invent something
German Kreativität, Schaffenskraft
- Kreativitätquality or ability to create or invent something
- Schaffenskraftquality or ability to create or invent something
- Schöpfungskraftquality or ability to create or invent something
Greek δημιουργικότητα
- δημιουργικότητα (dimiourgikótita)quality or ability to create or invent something
Hebrew יצירתיות
- יצירתיות (y'tsiratiút)quality or ability to create or invent something
Hindi रचनात्मकता
- रचनात्मकता (racnātmaktā)quality or ability to create or invent something
Hungarian kreativitás
- kreativitásquality or ability to create or invent something
Icelandic sköpunargáfa
- sköpunargáfaquality or ability to create or invent something
Indonesian kreativitas
- kreativitasquality or ability to create or invent something
Japanese 創造性, 創造力
- 創造性 (sōzōsei)quality or ability to create or invent something
- 創造力 (sōzōryoku)quality or ability to create or invent something
Korean 창의력, 창조력
- 창의력 (chang'uiryeok)quality or ability to create or invent something
- 창조력 (changjoryeok)quality or ability to create or invent something
Māori auahatanga
- auahatangaquality or ability to create or invent something
Norwegian Bokmål kreativitet
- kreativitetquality or ability to create or invent something
Persian خلاقیت
- خلاقیت (xallâqiyat)quality or ability to create or invent something
Polish kreatywność, twórczość
- kreatywnośćquality or ability to create or invent something
- twórczośćquality or ability to create or invent something
Portuguese criatividade
- criatividadequality or ability to create or invent something
Romanian creativitate
- creativitatequality or ability to create or invent something
Russian креати́вность, тво́рческие спосо́бности
- креати́вность (kreatívnostʹ)quality or ability to create or invent something
- тво́рческие спосо́бности (tvórčeskije sposóbnosti)quality or ability to create or invent something
Spanish creatividad
- creatividadquality or ability to create or invent something
Swedish kreativitet, skaparförmåga
- kreativitetquality or ability to create or invent something
- skaparförmågaquality or ability to create or invent something
Tagalog pagkamapanlikha
- pagkamapanlikhaquality or ability to create or invent something
Thai ความคิดสร้างสรรค์
- ความคิดสร้างสรรค์ (kwaam-kít-sâang-sǎn)quality or ability to create or invent something
Turkish yaratıcılık
- yaratıcılıkquality or ability to create or invent something
Urdu تخلیقی صلاحیت
- تخلیقی صلاحیت (taxlīqī salāhiyyat)quality or ability to create or invent something
Vietnamese óc sáng tạo, tính sáng tạo
- óc sáng tạoquality or ability to create or invent something
- tính sáng tạoquality or ability to create or invent something
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