creativity

[ kree-ey-tiv-i-tee, kree-uh- ]

/ ˌkri eɪˈtɪv ɪ ti, ˌkri ə- /

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noun

the state or quality of being creative.

the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination: the need for creativity in modern industry; creativity in the performing arts.

the process by which one utilizes creative ability: Extensive reading stimulated his creativity.

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Origin of creativity

First recorded in 1870–75; creative + -ity

OTHER WORDS FROM creativity

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How to use creativity in a sentence

Users are much more likely to engage with your posts if you incorporate an element of entertainment or creativity to capture their attention.
Five content promotion strategies SaaS marketers should implement today|Izabelle Hundrev|August 28, 2020|Search Engine Watch
They offer a rigorous way to verify that a program works, and arguments about intuition and creativity are less important than finding an efficient way to solve a problem.
How Close Are Computers to Automating Mathematical Reasoning?|Stephen Ornes|August 27, 2020|Quanta Magazine
The breadth and creativity of the nurses’ innovations illustrate the importance of empowering workers to codesign workplace health and safety processes.
Why empowering frontline workers is a key element to a safe reopening|jakemeth|August 18, 2020|Fortune
We are resigned to the ponderous structures and convoluted processes that put a brake on speed, a headlock on initiative, and lead boots on creativity.
How to break free of bureaucracy in the workplace|Michele Zanini|August 17, 2020|Quartz

While art made by algorithms can be unique and impressive, though, there’s one caveat that’s important to keep in mind when we worry about human creativity being rendered obsolete.
This Russian Firm’s Star Designer Is an AI—but No One Knew That for a Year|Vanessa Bates Ramirez|July 24, 2020|Singularity Hub
The culture of promotion through seniority kills creativity and effectiveness.
Your Local School Doesn’t Have to Suck|Michael S. Roth|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For OK Go the music video is medium for personal creativity, hype, and branding.
OK Go Is Helping Redefine the Music Video For the Internet Age|Lauren Schwartzberg|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
These industrial technologies have become the handmaidens of creativity.
Pioneers in Printing|The Daily Beast|October 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Actually, Miles Davis was much intrigued by the sheer will to creativity of Coltrane on his better nights.
The Stacks: John Coltrane’s Mighty Musical Quest|Nat Hentoff|October 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It removes Europe as the epicenter of creativity in a post-African world.
The Oldest Cave Art May Not Be in Europe|Justin Jones|October 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Religious dogma is sometimes used to shackle human creativity, and the form of belief is allowed to stifle the vitality of faith.
Herein is Love|Reuel L. Howe
Together they were to ascend from plane to plane of delight, experiencing divine struggle and divine bliss and divine creativity.
Musical Portraits|Paul Rosenfeld
Such engagements left him little time for literary creativity in the years before his death in 1747.
The Preface to the Aeneis of Virgil (1718)|Joseph Trapp
To know of, through and with nursing necessitates methods and techniques that honor freedom, creativity, and interconnectedness.
Nursing as Caring|Anne Boykin
The mid-and late-1960s saw an outpouring of literary creativity that had been pent up during the preceding decade.
Area Handbook for Romania|Eugene K. Keefe, Donald W. Bernier, Lyle E. Brenneman, William Giloane, James M. Moore, and Neda A. Walpole