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English
Etymology
From inventive + -ness.
Noun
inventiveness (countable and uncountable, plural inventivenesses)
- The quality of being inventive; the faculty of inventing.
- Synonym: inventivity
- Near-synonyms: resourcefulness, creativity, imagination
, William Morris, The Decorative Arts: Their Relation to Modern Life and Progress , London: Ellis and White, , →OCLC, page 21:For as was the land, such was the art of it while folk yet troubled themselves about such things; it strove little to impress people either by pomp or ingenuity: not unseldom it fell into commonplace, rarely it rose into majesty; yet was it never oppressive, never a slave’s nightmare or an insolent boast: and at its best it had an inventiveness, an individuality, that grander styles have never overpassed:
Translations
quality of being inventive
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