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individual creativity

individual creativity

3.7
A single person's own new ideas and ways of making things
  • noun
translation icon : creatividad individual
  • The workshop encourages individual creativity by allowing each participant to express their ideas freely.

But I think AI needs, you know, individual creativity more.

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Examples

  • There are hundreds of papers and books about improving individual creativity.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Hence, improving one's self-efficacy appears to increase individual creativity for maximizing the learning opportunities for students.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Permit individual creativity while emphasizing the feeling of the music.

    Academic text (1998)
  • We believe an important step in this process is to provide students with the necessary background knowledge that enables the development of critical-thinking skills, allowing individual creativity to come to the surface.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Incorporating efficacy into this analysis promotes the premise that student achievement results directly from individual creativity and that individual creativity results directly from self-efficacy.

    Academic text (1993)
  • When an organization offers a climate that enhances self-efficacy, it is investing in educators who excel in their performance and in their effectiveness through autonomy and individual creativity.

    Academic text (1993)
  • In addition to a perceived loss of individual creativity among popular musicians, the new rock culture lacks a sense of purpose, common cause, or movement comparable to those that guided Bossa Nova, Tropicalism, or engaged song in Brazil.

    Academic text (1990)
  • As Stedman suggests, d'Aulnoy's tales recreate a collaborative model of salon sociability in which individual creativity is supported by salon interaction.

    Academic text (2016)
  • For a rising generation of Ghanaians, collective liberation, good governance, and discourses of rights have been enfolded by claims to individual creativity as the path to economic accumulation and social progress.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Her paintings are a reflection of her individual creativity, showcasing her unique style and perspective.

How Creative

genius
252 4.9
originality
30 4.5
individual creativity
3.7
imitation
19 3.0
routine
354 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

individual + creativity

The phrase is fully compositional: 'individual' (single person) combined with 'creativity' (ability to create) directly yields the meaning of a single person’s creative ability. This construction is conceptually straightforward and common across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE’s meaning.

Etymology

Individual creativity paints a simple picture: individual means one person and creativity means making new ideas, like an artist alone at a desk making something new. So, the phrase today means the 'unique' creative ability or work of one person, not of a group.