creativity

creativity

See also: Creativity

English

Etymology

creative +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɹieɪˈtɪvɪti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɹieɪˈtɪvəti/, /-ɾi/

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• Hyphenation: cre‧at‧iv‧ity

Noun

creativity (countable and uncountable, plural creativities)

1. The ability to use imagination to produce a novel idea or product.

   His creativity is unsurpassed by his fellow students in the art class.

   • 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0 – 1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport‎, archived from the original on 4 November 2016:

     Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.

Synonyms

• (ability to create or invent): creativeness, originality.

Related terms

• create
• creatify
• creation
• creative
• creatively
• creativeness
• creativize

Translations

quality or ability to create or invent something

Arabic: إبداع‎ (ar) Catalan: creativitat (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 創造力／创造力 (zh) (chuàngzàolì), 創造性／创造性 (zh) (chuàngzàoxìng) Czech: tvořivost f Danish: kreativitet c, skaberevne c Dutch: creativiteit (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: loovus Faroese: skapanarevni n Finnish: luovuus (fi) French: créativité (fr) f Galician: creatividade (gl) f Georgian: კრეატიულობა (ḳreaṭiuloba), შემოქმედებითობა (šemokmedebitoba), შემოქმედობითობა (šemokmedobitoba) German: Kreativität (de) f Greek: δημιουργικότητα (el) f (dimiourgikótita) Hindi: रचनात्मकता (hi) f (racnātmaktā) Hebrew: יצירתיות‎ (he) f (yetziratiut) Hungarian: kreativitás (hu) Icelandic: sköpunargáfa f Ido: kreiveso (io) Indonesian: kreativitas (id) Japanese: 創造性 (sōzōsei), 創造力 (sōzōryoku) Kazakh: шығармашылық (şyğarmaşylyq) Khmer: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Maori: auahatanga Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: kreativitet m Nynorsk: kreativitet Old English: orþanc m Persian: please add this translation if you can Polish: kreatywność (pl) f, twórczość (pl) f Portuguese: criatividade (pt) f Romanian: creativitate (ro) f Russian: креати́вность (ru) f (kreatívnostʹ), тво́рческие спосо́бности f pl (tvórčeskije sposóbnosti) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: стваралаштво n, креативност f Roman: stvaralaštvo (sh) n, kreativnost (sh) f Spanish: creatividad (es) f Swedish: kreativitet (sv) c, skaparförmåga c Tagalog: pagkamapanlikha Thai: ความคิดสร้างสรรค์ (kwaam-kít-sâang-sǎn) Turkish: yaratıcılık (tr) Urdu: تخلیقی صلاحیت‎ f (taxlīqī salāhiyyat) Vietnamese: óc sáng tạo, tính sáng tạo

See also

• genius, often associated with creativity.

Further reading

• creativity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• reactivity