creativity

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

noun

1. the state or quality of being creative.
2. 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.

3. the process by which one utilizes creative ability:

   Extensive reading stimulated his creativity.

Other Words From

• anti·crea·tivi·ty noun
• noncre·a·tivi·ty noun
• uncre·a·tivi·ty noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of creativity¹

First recorded in 1870–75; creative + -ity

Example Sentences

Users are much more likely to engage with your posts if you incorporate an element of entertainment or creativity to capture their attention.

From 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.

From Quanta Magazine

The breadth and creativity of the nurses’ innovations illustrate the importance of empowering workers to codesign workplace health and safety processes.

From 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.

From 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.

From Singularity Hub 

The culture of promotion through seniority kills creativity and effectiveness.

From The Daily Beast

For OK Go the music video is medium for personal creativity, hype, and branding.

From The Daily Beast

These industrial technologies have become the handmaidens of creativity.

From The Daily Beast

Actually, Miles Davis was much intrigued by the sheer will to creativity of Coltrane on his better nights.

From The Daily Beast

It removes Europe as the epicenter of creativity in a post-African world.

From The Daily Beast

Religious dogma is sometimes used to shackle human creativity, and the form of belief is allowed to stifle the vitality of faith.

From Project Gutenberg

Together they were to ascend from plane to plane of delight, experiencing divine struggle and divine bliss and divine creativity.

From Project Gutenberg

Such engagements left him little time for literary creativity in the years before his death in 1747.

From Project Gutenberg

To know of, through and with nursing necessitates methods and techniques that honor freedom, creativity, and interconnectedness.

From Project Gutenberg

The mid-and late-1960s saw an outpouring of literary creativity that had been pent up during the preceding decade.

From Project Gutenberg