creativitycre‧a‧tiv‧i‧ty /ˌkriːeɪˈtɪvəti/ ●●○ AWL noun [uncountable] - Companies need to encourage creativity and innovation.
- His house, a rambling patchwork of add-ons and original rooms, is a museum of his disjointed creativity.
- In this myth, entrepreneurial heroes personify freedom and creativity.
- It also blocks the creativity of black artistic imagination and practices of representation.
- Managing creativity has always been a complex issue.
- The missive points out that the Web is getting faster and easier to use, giving people more access to multimedia creativity.
- The story of the universe is a mythic drama of creativity, allurement, relation, and grace.
- There is clearly a fine line between stifling government intervention and encouraging creativity and innovation.
ADJECTIVE► artistic· Much of this artistic creativity was more innovative than before.
► individual· Simulation has also begun to supplant individual creativity.· The climate, in most cases, is not particularly conducive to individual creativity.· This view of language brings philology to life for Julia; she suddenly sees its object as the product of individual creativity.
VERB► encourage· It encourages creativity and allows pupils to use the language they have learnt in the context of stimulating and relevant projects.· Leaders also encourage creativity when they take the sting out of failure.· Index of model letters useful as a prop and exercises based on them also encourage creativity in letter writing.· There is clearly a fine line between stifling government intervention and encouraging creativity and innovation.· In the name of encouraging creativity, Raskin blessed these outbursts.· He supports the programs and encourages the creativity needed to sustain them, he said.· Competition between teams-between organizations-builds morale and encourages creativity.
► stifle· While I would agree that it can only help your proficiency, it should not stifle creativity.· An atmosphere in which people dread failure or fear that they will be ridiculed for offbeat ideas stifles creativity, Eisner believes.· Officialdom must not stifle all creativity.
► use· They have little opportunity to use judgment or creativity.· Coleridge uses his poetic creativity to achieve his end, questioning, exploring and explaining.
nouncreationcreativitycreatorcreativenessverbcreaterecreateadjectivecreative ≠ uncreativeadverbcreatively