invention

Noun

Meaning

The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing.

That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention.

Thought; idea.

A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.

The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.

The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

discovery innovation conception development design device creation ingenuity contrivance breakthrough contraption excogitation gadget fib chimera
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Antonyms

fact datum avoid failure drop debt
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Hypernyms

creation creativeness creativity creative thinking creating by mental acts

Hyponyms

coinage concoction contrivance neologism neology devisal

Related terms

inventor invent inventive invented reinvent inventional

Phrases with the word

certificate of invention intricate invention

Examples

Necessity... the mother of invention. Plato

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. Dave Barry

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention. Margaret Mead

Necessity is the mother of invention. English Proverb

Partnership is an invention of the devil. Russian Proverb

Haste is the invention of the devil. Arabic Proverb

Close letter words and terms

inventible inventibleness inventio Invention of the Cross inventioneer inventionism