imaginativeness
- noun
- /ɪˈmædʒɪnətɪvnəs/
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- His imaginativeness shone through in his ability to solve problems with original and creative solutions.
Examples
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Peer information is especially helpful in finding students with leadership potential, as leaders usually emerge from and are recognized by peers, and it is also useful in the area of creativity, as peers have a good basis for judging the imaginativeness and uniqueness of a fellow student's ideas (see Richert, 2003).
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Others I've admired for their skill or imaginativeness, but haven't found admiration turning to love.
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We must help them develop the perceptiveness, imaginativeness, and informed understanding that active, creative listening requires.
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We then judge students' conclusions for (2) plausibility and imaginativeness.
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Nancy Smith suggested that there are other elements beyond creativity, imaginativeness, and self-expression that are important in young children's art.
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There may be something suggestive in this name of that eternal tie between youth and the dawn, because certainly here the people are still children and possess all a child's sweetness, simplicity, and imaginativeness...
Blog text (22) -
They found that children who scored highest in what they called socio-dramatic play also showed the greatest gains in a number of cognitive areas, such as higher intellectual competence, longer attention span, and more innovation and imaginativeness.
Academic text (1992) -
RWA scores are, indeed, inversely associated with imaginativeness and open-mindedness (Billings et al., 1993). I made no strong predictions for the association between RWA and idealism.
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The artist's imaginativeness allowed her to create vibrant and unique sculptures from recycled materials.
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Teachers encourage students' imaginativeness by promoting creative writing and innovative projects.
Synonyms
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3.8
A clear image in the mind of something not present
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2.8
The ability to form new pictures and ideas in your mind that are not real
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3.4
The ability to use imagination to make new ideas or things
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6.1
Clever new thinking that finds solutions to problems and makes useful things
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4.5
A quality of being new and different in ideas and not copied from others
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6.3
A playful, unusual idea or action that feels light and fun
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3.7
Thinking in new ways to make things or solve problems
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4.9
The ability to think of new ideas and ways to do things
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4.6
A clear creative idea that an artist uses to make art
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3.3
Ability to think of new ideas and make new things
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6.8
An ability to imagine new ideas that change things
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6.4
A way to find new ideas that ignores practical limits
A way of thinking that comes up with many different ideas to solve a problem
A quality of being creative and skilled in making art or design
A playful, imaginative way of acting or creating that seems unusual and unpredictable
An imaginative, playful style full of creative ideas
Antonyms
How Imaginative
Surface Forms
Morphology
imaginativeness = imaginative (transparent) = imagin + ative + ness
Built by adding the productive suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'imaginative', yielding the quality of being imaginative.
Etymology
Imaginativeness comes from the word imagine, which in turn comes from the old Latin word imago meaning 'image' or 'picture'. So, imaginativeness is the skill of making new pictures and ideas in your mind.