Inventivity

[elster]

I don't think this is a word.

However what would you use as a single word that means ability to be inventive.

[Mr Gearchange]

Inventive. HTH

[Balmoral Green]

Inventorise, Inventoror, Inventatater, Inventorationist.

[Famous Graham]

Inventiveness.

[Cooky]

innovative

[stuthemong]

At work we use a word called "ideation" - which means coming up with ideas. I HATE it. Sounds ridiculous, I refuse to use it.

[wendyg]

Mr Gearchange said:

Inventive. HTH

Seconded
Think of it as the ability to invent.

Edited by wendyg on Wednesday 17th February 22:54

[ellroy]

Imaginative, genius? Depends on the context.

[Famous Graham]

wendyg said:

Mr Gearchange said:

Inventive. HTH

Seconded
Think of it as the ability to invent.

Edited by wendyg on Wednesday 17th February 22:54

It's the adjective, yes, but the noun is inventiveness.

Someone is inventive.
They display inventiveness.

[elster]

Famous Graham said:

wendyg said:

Mr Gearchange said:

Inventive. HTH

Seconded
Think of it as the ability to invent.

Edited by wendyg on Wednesday 17th February 22:54

It's the adjective, yes, but the noun is inventiveness.

Someone is inventive.
They display inventiveness.

I'm going with our Graham. This looks about right.

[Kit80]

elster said:

Famous Graham said:

wendyg said:

Mr Gearchange said:

Inventive. HTH

Seconded
Think of it as the ability to invent.

Edited by wendyg on Wednesday 17th February 22:54

It's the adjective, yes, but the noun is inventiveness.

Someone is inventive.
They display inventiveness.

I'm going with our Graham. This looks about right.

I agree to. I have inventedness so many new words by putting 'ness' on the end.

[Kays vRS]

Kit80 said:

I agree to. I have inventedness so many new words by putting 'ness' on the end.

I do this too: I recently used the words 'Importantness' and 'Suitableness' but decided to change them before the report was issued.

[Rooster]

stuthemong said:

At work we use a word called "ideation" - which means coming up with ideas. I HATE it. Sounds ridiculous, I refuse to use it.

very American

[Kit80]

Kays vRS said:

Kit80 said:

I agree to. I have inventedness so many new words by putting 'ness' on the end.

I do this too: I recently used the words 'Importantness' and 'Suitableness' but decided to change them before the report was issued.

I know it is awesomeness.

[LukeBird]

stuthemong said:

At work we use a word called "ideation" - which means coming up with ideas. I HATE it. Sounds ridiculous, I refuse to use it.

My god, that is awful.
Somebody has obviously been to business 'school'.

[Menguin]

See that Mr Anderson?

That is the scent of inventivability

[Herbie58]

Creativeness, Solution focused, problem solving, inventive ability, design flair, concept centric, imaginative, entreprenuerial. Out of the box, blue sky thinking and all other sorts of ste

[andy400]

stuthemong said:

At work we use a word called "ideation" - which means coming up with ideas. I HATE it. Sounds ridiculous, I refuse to use it.

Good God. Please tell me where you work so I can never, ever go there.

Ever.


(My co-workers come from 25 different nations, with varying levels of English ability, and that sounds like the sort of non-word they come up with when they're getting confused and struggling with working in a foreign language.)

[GTIR]

Menguin said:

See that Mr Anderson?

That is the scent of inventivability

See that Mr Henson?

That's the scent of puppetry.


See, could apply that to many situations. Very inventivitiesed.

[isee]

Famous Graham said:

Inventiveness.

that