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creativity
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cre·a·tive  (kr-tv)
adj.
1. Having the ability or power to create: Human beings are creative animals.
2. Productive; creating.
3. Characterized by originality and expressiveness; imaginative: creative writing.
n.
One who displays productive originality: the creatives in the advertising department.

cre·ative·ly adv.
crea·tivi·ty (--t), cre·ative·ness n.
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Noun1.creativity - the ability to createcreativity - the ability to create                
ability, power - possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done; "danger heightened his powers of discrimination"
fecundity, fruitfulness - the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination
flight - passing above and beyond ordinary bounds; "a flight of fancy"; "flights of rhetoric"; "flights of imagination"
wizardry, genius - 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; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"
invention, excogitation, innovation, conception, design - the creation of something in the mind
cleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness - the power of creative imagination
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; associated with creativity

creativity
noun imagination, talent, inspiration, productivity, fertility, ingenuity, originality, inventiveness, cleverness, fecundity American art reached a peak of creativity in the 50's and 60's.
Translations
creativity [ˌkriːeɪˈtɪvɪtɪ] Ncreatividad f
creativity [ˌkriːeɪˈtɪvɪti] ncréativité f
creativity
nschöpferische Begabung or Kraft; (of person also, of approach, attitude)Kreativität f
creativity [ˌkriːeɪˈtɪvɪtɪ] ncreatività


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