Mental Process
creativity
cre·a·tiv·i·ty [ kree-ey-tiv-i-tee, kree-uh- ]
Subclass of:
Thinking, function;
Personality
Definitions related to creativity:
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Ability to produce original and unusual ideas, or to make something new or imaginative; the ability to use the imagination to develop new and original ideas or things.CRISP ThesaurusNational Institutes of Health, 2006
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The ability to generate new ideas or images.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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Creativity, the ability to make or otherwise bring into existence something new, whether a new solution to a problem, a new method or device, or a new artistic object or form. A number of personality characteristics have been shown to be associated with creative productivity. One of these is...Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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