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contrivancenoun an interesting and often novel device with a practical usea new contrivance for cleaning computer keyboards appliance, contraption, gadget, gimmick, gizmo(also gismo), jigger, widget implement, instrument, tool, utensilingenuity, innovation, inventionaccessory(also accessary), adjunctmechanism, trickdingus, doodad, doohickey, hickey, hootenanny(chiefly dialect), thingamabob, thingamajig(or thingumajig), thingummy something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imaginationdespite the many modern contrivances for saving time and labor, we seem to have less leisure and energy than ever before brainchild, coinage, concoction, creation, innovation, invention, wrinkle contraption, device, gadget, gizmo(also gismo), noveltydesign, product, workdream, fantasy(also phantasy), picture, visionconception, imagining, origination carbon copy, clone, copy, dupe, duplicate, duplication, facsimile, imitation, reduplication, replica, replication, reproduction the ability to form mental images of things that either are not physically present or have never been conceived or created by othersin that writer's hands, narrative contrivance can often deteriorate into pointless gimmickry creativity, fancy, fantasy(also phantasy), ideation, imagination, imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness, originality brainstorm, brainstorming, inspirationfecundity, fertilityingenuity, resourcefulnessversatilitychimera, daydream, delusion, dream, figment, hallucination, illusion, mind's eye, mirage, phantasm(also fantasm), pipe dreamenvisaging, visualization literality, literalness ca. 1628 |