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    CREATIVE THINKING

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The ability to createplay

    Synonyms:

    creative thinking; creativeness; creativity

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("creative thinking" is a kind of...):

    ability; power (possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done)

    Meronyms (parts of "creative thinking"):

    divergent thinking; out-of-the-box thinking (thinking that moves away in diverging directions so as to involve a variety of aspects and which sometimes lead to novel ideas and solutions; associated with creativity)

    Attribute:

    creative; originative (having the ability or power to create)

    uncreative (not creative)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creative thinking"):

    fecundity; fruitfulness (the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination)

    flight (passing above and beyond ordinary bounds)

    genius; wizardry (exceptional creative ability)

    imagination; imaginativeness; vision (the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses)

    conception; design; excogitation; innovation; invention (the creation of something in the mind)

    cleverness; ingeniousness; ingenuity; inventiveness (the power of creative imagination)

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