creativity

See also: Creativity

English

Etymology

From creative +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɹieɪˈtɪvɪti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɹieɪˈtɪvəti/, /-ɾi/

• Audio (General American):

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• Hyphenation: cre‧at‧iv‧ity

Noun

creativity (countable and uncountable, plural creativities)

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

   His creativity is unsurpassed by his fellow students in the art class.

   • 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0 – 1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 November 2016:

     Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.

Synonyms

• (ability to create or invent): creativeness, originality.

Derived terms

• anticreativity
• cocreativity
• hypercreativity
• noncreativity
• uncreativity

 

Related terms

• create
• creatify
• creation
• creative
• creatively
• creativeness
• creativize

Translations

quality or ability to create or invent something

• Afrikaans: kreatiwiteit
• Arabic: إِبْدَاع (ar) m (ʔibdāʕ)
• Catalan: creativitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 創造力／创造力 (zh) (chuàngzàolì), 創造性／创造性 (zh) (chuàngzàoxìng)

• Czech: tvořivost (cs) f
• Danish: kreativitet c, skaberevne c
• Dutch: creativiteit (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: loovus
• Faroese: skapanarevni n
• Finnish: luovuus (fi)
• French: créativité (fr) f
• Galician: creatividade (gl) f
• Georgian: კრეატიულობა (ḳreaṭiuloba), შემოქმედებითობა (šemokmedebitoba), შემოქმედობითობა (šemokmedobitoba)
• German: Kreativität (de) f, Schaffenskraft (de) f, Schöpfungskraft f
• Greek: δημιουργικότητα (el) f (dimiourgikótita)
• Hebrew: יצירתיות (he) f (yetziratiut)
• Hindi: रचनात्मकता (hi) f (racnātmaktā)
• Hungarian: kreativitás (hu)
• Icelandic: sköpunargáfa f
• Ido: kreiveso (io)
• Indonesian: kreativitas (id)
• Japanese: 創造性 (sōzōsei), 創造力 (sōzōryoku)
• Kazakh: шығармашылық (şyğarmaşylyq)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 창의력(創意力) (ko) (chang'uiryeok) (coming up with new ideas), 창조력(創造力) (changjoryeok) (more physical force of creation)
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: auahatanga
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kreativitet m

  Nynorsk: kreativitet

• Old English: orþanc m
• Persian: خلاقیت (fa) (xallâqiyat)
• Polish: kreatywność (pl) f, twórczość (pl) f
• Portuguese: criatividade (pt) f
• Romanian: creativitate (ro) f
• Russian: креати́вность (ru) f (kreatívnostʹ), тво́рческие спосо́бности f pl (tvórčeskije sposóbnosti)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стваралаштво n, креативност f

  Roman: stvaralaštvo (sh) n, kreativnost (sh) f

• Spanish: creatividad (es) f
• Swedish: kreativitet (sv) c, skaparförmåga c
• Tagalog: pagkamapanlikha
• Thai: ความคิดสร้างสรรค์ (kwaam-kít-sâang-sǎn)
• Turkish: yaratıcılık (tr)
• Urdu: تخلیقی صلاحیت f (taxlīqī salāhiyyat)
• Vietnamese: óc sáng tạo, tính sáng tạo

See also

• genius, often associated with creativity.

Further reading

• creativity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• reactivity