| Noun | 1. | creating by mental acts - the act of creating something by thinking creation, creative activity - the human act of creating formation - creation by mental activity; "the formation of sentences"; "the formation of memories" design, designing - the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan); "he contributed to the design of a new instrument" computer programing, computer programming, programing, programming - creating a sequence of instructions to enable the computer to do something verbal creation - creating something by the use of speech and language actualisation, actualization, realization, realisation - making real or giving the appearance of reality composing, composition - musical creation invention - the act of inventing conceptualization, formulation, conceptualisation - inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally |