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creativity

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

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the state or quality of being creative.
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.
the process by which one utilizes creative ability:
Extensive reading stimulated his creativity.

First recorded in 1870–75; creative + -ity

The culture of promotion through seniority kills creativity and effectiveness.

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

These industrial technologies have become the handmaidens of creativity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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