"creativity" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /kɹieɪˈtɪvɪti/ [Received-Pronunciation], /kɹieɪˈtɪvəti/ [General-American], /-ɾi/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-creativity.ogg Forms: creativities [plural]
Etymology: From creative + -ity. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|creative|ity}} creative + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} creativity (countable and uncountable, plural creativities)
  1. The ability to use imagination to produce a novel idea or product. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms (ability to create or invent): creativeness, originality Derived forms: anticreativity, cocreativity, hypercreativity, noncreativity, uncreativity Related terms: create, creatify, creation, creative, creatively, creativeness, creativize, genius, often associated with creativity Translations (quality or ability to create or invent something): kreatiwiteit (Afrikaans), إِبْدَاع (ʔibdāʕ) [masculine] (Arabic), creativitat [feminine] (Catalan), 創造力 (Chinese Mandarin), 创造力 (chuàngzàolì) (Chinese Mandarin), 創造性 (Chinese Mandarin), 创造性 (chuàngzàoxìng) (Chinese Mandarin), tvořivost [feminine] (Czech), kreativitet [common-gender] (Danish), skaberevne [common-gender] (Danish), creativiteit (Dutch), loovus (Estonian), skapanarevni [neuter] (Faroese), luovuus (Finnish), créativité [feminine] (French), creatividade [feminine] (Galician), კრეატიულობა (ḳreaṭiuloba) (Georgian), შემოქმედებითობა (šemokmedebitoba) (Georgian), შემოქმედობითობა (šemokmedobitoba) (Georgian), Kreativität [feminine] (German), Schaffenskraft [feminine] (German), Schöpfungskraft [feminine] (German), δημιουργικότητα (dimiourgikótita) [feminine] (Greek), יצירתיות (yetziratiut) [feminine] (Hebrew), रचनात्मकता (racnātmaktā) [feminine] (Hindi), kreativitás (Hungarian), sköpunargáfa [feminine] (Icelandic), kreiveso (Ido), kreativitas (Indonesian), 創造性 (sōzōsei) (Japanese), 創造力 (sōzōryoku) (Japanese), шығармашылық (şyğarmaşylyq) (Kazakh), 창의력 (chang'uiryeok) (english: coming up with new ideas) (alt: 創意力) (Korean), 창조력 (changjoryeok) (english: more physical force of creation) (alt: 創造力) (Korean), auahatanga (Maori), kreativitet [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), kreativitet (Norwegian Nynorsk), orþanc [masculine] (Old English), خلاقیت (xallâqiyat) (Persian), kreatywność [feminine] (Polish), twórczość [feminine] (Polish), criatividade [feminine] (Portuguese), creativitate [feminine] (Romanian), креати́вность (kreatívnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), тво́рческие спосо́бности (tvórčeskije sposóbnosti) [feminine, plural] (Russian), стваралаштво [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), креативност [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), stvaralaštvo [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), kreativnost [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), creatividad [feminine] (Spanish), kreativitet [common-gender] (Swedish), skaparförmåga [common-gender] (Swedish), pagkamapanlikha (Tagalog), ความคิดสร้างสรรค์ (kwaam-kít-sâang-sǎn) (Thai), yaratıcılık (Turkish), تخلیقی صلاحیت (taxlīqī salāhiyyat) [feminine] (Urdu), óc sáng tạo (Vietnamese), tính sáng tạo (Vietnamese)
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          "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
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          "code": "fa",
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          "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
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          "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "twórczość"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "criatividade"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "creativitate"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "kreatívnostʹ",
          "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "креати́вность"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "tvórčeskije sposóbnosti",
          "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "тво́рческие спосо́бности"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "стваралаштво"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
          "tags": [
            "Cyrillic",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "креативност"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "stvaralaštvo"
        },
        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
          "tags": [
            "Roman",
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "kreativnost"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "creatividad"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "kreativitet"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "skaparförmåga"
        },
        {
          "code": "tl",
          "lang": "Tagalog",
          "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
          "word": "pagkamapanlikha"
        },
        {
          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "kwaam-kít-sâang-sǎn",
          "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
          "word": "ความคิดสร้างสรรค์"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
          "word": "yaratıcılık"
        },
        {
          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "taxlīqī salāhiyyat",
          "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "تخلیقی صلاحیت"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
          "word": "óc sáng tạo"
        },
        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
          "word": "tính sáng tạo"
        }
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      "tags": [
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      "ipa": "/kɹieɪˈtɪvəti/",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "anticreativity"
    },
    {
      "word": "cocreativity"
    },
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      "word": "hypercreativity"
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        "Terms with Afrikaans translations",
        "Terms with Arabic translations",
        "Terms with Catalan translations",
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        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Estonian translations",
        "Terms with Faroese translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Galician translations",
        "Terms with Georgian translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
        "Terms with Hindi translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Icelandic translations",
        "Terms with Ido translations",
        "Terms with Indonesian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Kazakh translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Maori translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
        "Terms with Old English translations",
        "Terms with Persian translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Tagalog translations",
        "Terms with Thai translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Urdu translations",
        "Terms with Vietnamese translations"
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          "text": "His creativity is unsurpassed by his fellow students in the art class.",
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          "ref": "2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0 – 1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2016-11-04:",
          "text": "Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.",
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      "code": "af",
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      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "kreatiwiteit"
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      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "إِبْدَاع"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "creativitat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "創造力"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chuàngzàolì",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "创造力"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "創造性"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chuàngzàoxìng",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "创造性"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tvořivost"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kreativitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skaberevne"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "creativiteit"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "loovus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "skapanarevni"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "luovuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "créativité"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "creatividade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ḳreaṭiuloba",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "კრეატიულობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "šemokmedebitoba",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "შემოქმედებითობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "šemokmedobitoba",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "შემოქმედობითობა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Kreativität"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schaffenskraft"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Schöpfungskraft"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "dimiourgikótita",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "δημιουργικότητα"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "yetziratiut",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "יצירתיות"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "racnātmaktā",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "रचनात्मकता"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "kreativitás"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sköpunargáfa"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "kreiveso"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "kreativitas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sōzōsei",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "創造性"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sōzōryoku",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "創造力"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "şyğarmaşylyq",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "шығармашылық"
    },
    {
      "alt": "創意力",
      "code": "ko",
      "english": "coming up with new ideas",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "chang'uiryeok",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "창의력"
    },
    {
      "alt": "創造力",
      "code": "ko",
      "english": "more physical force of creation",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "changjoryeok",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "창조력"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "auahatanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kreativitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "kreativitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "orþanc"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "xallâqiyat",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "خلاقیت"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kreatywność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "twórczość"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "criatividade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "creativitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kreatívnostʹ",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "креати́вность"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "tvórčeskije sposóbnosti",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "тво́рческие спосо́бности"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "стваралаштво"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "креативност"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "stvaralaštvo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kreativnost"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "creatividad"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kreativitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "skaparförmåga"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "pagkamapanlikha"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "kwaam-kít-sâang-sǎn",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "ความคิดสร้างสรรค์"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "yaratıcılık"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "taxlīqī salāhiyyat",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "تخلیقی صلاحیت"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "óc sáng tạo"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "quality or ability to create or invent something",
      "word": "tính sáng tạo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "creativity"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.