inventiveness

inventive | American Dictionary

inventive
adjective
 approvingus/ɪnˈven·tɪv/
having or showing the ability to design or create something new:
He is famous for his zany, inventive books for children.

Examples of inventive

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Once again the writing is brilliantly inventive but prone, too, to lapse into rhythmic banalities.
There are countless anecdotes of inventive optimists who succeeded where others failed by imagining waiting customers.
Inventions covered under the patent law have to meet the criteria of novelty, inventive step, and industrial applicability.
It is this process which leads to inventive energies being engrossed by a relatively limited set of problems.
Both were inventive; they exploited new technologies of versification; they sought new forms of personal expression.
That they are colourful, inventive, unusual or provocative does not detract from this basic characteristic.
Authors claim space for being inventive in their theoretical physics research.
Other objectors were more cautious and more inventive.
Inclusive researchers are too busy trying to find 'ever more inventive ways of enabling people with learning disabilities to do research'(p. 189).
Participants in these workshops, numbering many thousands, were treated to a method that was brilliantly inventive in its lack of presumption and ever-present humour.
We must become more inventive and aggressive in our approach to the regurgitant common atrioventricular orifice.
These became increasingly inventive over the course of his career.
But each of us, in conversation, must be inventive: must respond to the not entirely expected.
I put forward a macroeconomic model of inventive activity and growth, with two conventional factors, capital and labor, and one, new, nonconventional factor, technological knowledge.
Such language use is not only indicative of an inventive and dynamic culture, but also various pragmatic norms and conventions.
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