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inventionnoun something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imaginationhis clever invention made people's lives easier brainchild, coinage, concoction, contrivance, creation, innovation, 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 something that is the product of the imaginationunsurprisingly, the story about being kidnapped by aliens was pure invention fable, fabrication, fantasy(also phantasy), fiction, figment anecdote, narrative, novel, story, tale, yarnfairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, mendacity, misrepresentation, prevarication, untruth, whoppermake-believe fact, materiality, reality actuality, realness the ability to form mental images of things that either are not physically present or have never been conceived or created by othersa writer with great invention, she is able to create on the page worlds that don't exist but certainly seem like they could contrivance, creativity, fancy, fantasy(also phantasy), ideation, imagination, imaginativeness, 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 the skill and imagination to create new thingsa person of seemingly endless invention, Thomas Edison held a world-record 1,093 patents cleverness, creativeness, creativity, imagination, imaginativeness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, innovativeness, inventiveness, originality fecundity, fertility, fruitfulness, productiveness, productivity, prolificacy, prolificity, prolificnesscapableness, resourcefulnessgenius, giftedness, talentfire, inspiration, muse dryness, dullness(also dulness) in the 14th century |