Standard Lemma guide

creativity

name · noun · 3 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.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /kri.eɪˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/
  • /kri.əˈtɪv.ᵻ.ti/
  • [-ɾi] t-flapping
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  • CMU ARPABET: K R IY2 EY0 T IH1 V AH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A nontheistic religion based on religious naturalism and white racialism.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The ability to use imagination to produce a novel idea or product.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: creativeness, originality

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

the ability to create

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: creativeness, creative thinking

Antonyms: none provided

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-Indo-European *-teh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh2ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English creativity From creative + -ity.

Across languages

Translations

56 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: kreatiwiteit — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Arabic: إِبْدَاع (ʔibdāʕ) — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Catalan: creativitat — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Chinese Mandarin: 創造力 /创造力 (chuàngzàolì) — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Chinese Mandarin: 創造性 /创造性 (chuàngzàoxìng) — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Czech: tvořivost — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Danish: kreativitet — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Danish: skaberevne — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Dutch: creativiteit — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Estonian: loovus — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Faroese: skapanarevni — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Finnish: luovuus — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • French: créativité — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Galician: creatividade — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Georgian: კრეატიულობა (ḳreaṭiuloba) — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Georgian: შემოქმედებითობა (šemokmedebitoba) — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Georgian: შემოქმედობითობა (šemokmedobitoba) — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • German: Kreativität — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • German: Schaffenskraft — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • German: Schöpfungskraft — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Greek: δημιουργικότητα (dimiourgikótita) — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Hebrew: יצירתיות (y'tsiratiút) — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Hindi: रचनात्मकता (racnātmaktā) — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Hungarian: kreativitás — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Icelandic: sköpunargáfa — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Ido: kreiveso — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Indonesian: kreativitas — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Japanese: 創造性 (sōzōsei) — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Japanese: 創造力 (sōzōryoku) — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Kazakh: шығармашылық (şyğarmaşylyq) — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Korean: 창의력 (chang'uiryeok) — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Korean: 창조력 (changjoryeok) — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Māori: auahatanga — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kreativitet — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kreativitet — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Old English: orþanc — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Persian: خلاقیت (xallâqiyat) — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Polish: kreatywność — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Polish: twórczość — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Portuguese: criatividade — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Romanian: creativitate — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Russian: креати́вность (kreatívnostʹ) — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Russian: тво́рческие спосо́бности (tvórčeskije sposóbnosti) — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Serbo-Croatian: стваралаштво — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Serbo-Croatian: креативност — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Serbo-Croatian: stvaralaštvo — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Serbo-Croatian: kreativnost — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Spanish: creatividad — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Swedish: kreativitet — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Swedish: skaparförmåga — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Tagalog: pagkamapanlikha — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Thai: ความคิดสร้างสรรค์ (kwaam-kít-sâang-sǎn) — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Turkish: yaratıcılık — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Urdu: تخلیقی صلاحیت (taxlīqī salāhiyyat) — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Vietnamese: óc sáng tạo — quality or ability to create or invent something
  • Vietnamese: tính sáng tạo — quality or ability to create or invent something
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