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creativeness

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /kɹiˈeɪtɪvnəs/
  • General-American: /kɹiˈeɪtɪvnəs/
  • General-American: /-ɾəv-/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: K R IY0 EY1 T IH0 V N AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The state of being creative; creativity.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

the ability to create

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: creativity, creative thinking

Antonyms: uncreativeness

Broader terms: ability, power

Narrower terms: fecundity, fruitfulness, flight, genius, wizardry, imagination, imaginativeness, vision, invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design, inventiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, cleverness

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English creative Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English creativeness From creative + -ness.