inventiveness

English

Etymology

inventive +‎ -ness

Noun

inventiveness (countable and uncountable, plural inventivenesses)

1. The quality of being inventive; the faculty of inventing.

   Near-synonyms: resourcefulness, creativity, imagination

   • [1878], William Morris, The Decorative Arts: Their Relation to Modern Life and Progress […], London: Ellis and White, […], →OCLC, page 21:

     For as was the land, such was the art of it while folk yet troubled themselves about such things; it strove little to impress people either by pomp or ingenuity: not unseldom it fell into commonplace, rarely it rose into majesty; yet was it never oppressive, never a slave’s nightmare or an insolent boast: and at its best it had an inventiveness, an individuality, that grander styles have never overpassed: […]

Translations

quality of being inventive

• Belarusian: вынахо́длівасць f (vynaxódlivascʹ)
• Czech: vynalézavost f
• Dutch: vindingrijkheid (nl) f
• Finnish: kekseliäisyys (fi)
• French: inventivité (fr) f
• German: Einfallsreichtum (de) m, Erfindungsreichtum m, Erfindungsgabe (de) f
• Greek: εφευρετικότητα (el) f (efevretikótita)

  Ancient: ἐπίνοια (epínoia)

• Italian: inventiva (it) f, ingegno (it) m, creatività (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oppfinnsomhet (no) m or f

• Polish: pomysłowość (pl) f
• Romanian: inventivitate (ro) f
• Russian: изобрета́тельность (ru) f (izobretátelʹnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: inventivnost (sh)
• Spanish: inventiva (es) f, ingenio (es) m, creatividad (es) f
• Swedish: uppfinningsrikedom (sv) c

References

• “inventiveness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.