inventiveness

== English == === Etymology === From inventive + -ness. === Noun === inventiveness (countable and uncountable, plural inventivenesses) The quality of being inventive; the faculty of inventing. Synonym: inventivity Near-synonyms: resourcefulness, creativity, imagination ==== Translations ==== === References === William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “inventiveness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.