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contrivancesnounpl. of contrivance an interesting and often novel device with a practical usea new contrivance for cleaning computer keyboards appliances, contraptions, gadgets, gimmicks, gizmos(also gismos), jiggers, widgets implements, instruments, tools, utensilsingenuities, innovations, inventionsaccessories(also accessaries), adjunctsmechanisms, tricksdinguses, doodads, doohickeys(also doohickies), hickeys, hootenannies(chiefly dialect), thingamabobs, thingamajigs(or thingumajigs), thingummies 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 brainchildren, coinages, concoctions, creations, innovations, inventions, wrinkles contraptions, devices, gadgets, gizmos(also gismos), noveltiesdesigns, products, worksdreams, fantasies(also phantasies), pictures, visionsconceptions, originations carbon copies, clones, copies, dupes, duplicates, duplications, facsimiles, imitations, reduplications, replicas, replications, reproductions |