'Inventiveness' definitions:
Definition of 'inventiveness'
From: WordNet
noun
Definition of 'Inventiveness'
From: GCIDE
- Inventive \In*vent"ive\, a. [Cf. F. inventif.] Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. --Dryden. -- {In*vent"ive*ly}, adv. -- {In*vent"ive*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'inventiveness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acuteness,
- art,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- astuteness,
- authenticity,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- cleverness,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- creativeness,
- creativity,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- fecundity,
- fertile mind,
- fertility,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- foxiness,
- freshness,
- gamesmanship,
- guile,
- ingeniousness,
- ingenuity,
- innovation,
- insidiousness,
- invention,
- Italian hand,
- newness,
- nonimitation,
- novelty,
- one-upmanship,
- originality,
- pregnant imagination,
- productivity,
- prolificacy,
- readiness,
- resourcefulness,
- satanic cunning,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- sophistry,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- teeming imagination,
- trickiness,
- uniqueness,
- wariness,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wit