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creativity | generative |

As a proper noun creativity

is a minor nontheistic, ethnocentric religion based on racist beliefs.

As an adjective generative is

having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.

creativity

English

Noun

  • The quality or ability to create or invent something.
    • His creativity is unsurpassed by his fellow students in the art class.
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    • , year=2012 , date=June 9 , author=Owen Phillips , title=Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity , pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation.}}

    Related terms

    * create * creation * creative

    Synonyms

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

    Anagrams

    *

    generative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
  • * That generative particle. — Bentley
  • *
    • Of course, structures like those associated with (36) and (37) constitute only a tiny subset of the infinite set of well-formed sentence structures found in English. We can increase the Generative Capacity of our grammar ( = the set of structures which it generates) either by expanding the Lexicon on the one hand, or by expanding the Categorial Rules (i.e. Phrase Structure Rules) on the other.

    Related terms

    * degenerative

    Synonyms

    * creative

    Antonyms

    * annihilative