One entry found for invention.

Entry Word: invention
Function: noun
Text: 1 something (as a device) created for the first time through the use of the imagination <his clever invention made people's lives easier>
Synonyms coinage, concoction, contrivance, creation, innovation, wrinkle
Related Words contraption, device, gadget, gizmo (or gismo), novelty; design, product, work; dream, fantasy (also phantasy), picture, vision; conception, imagining, origination
Near Antonyms copy, duplicate, imitation
2 something that is the product of the imagination <the story about being kidnapped by aliens was pure invention> -- see FICTION
3 the ability to form mental images of things that either are not physically present or have never been conceived or created by others <a writer with invention, she is able to create on the page worlds that don't exist but certainly seem like they could> -- see IMAGINATION
4 the skill and imagination to create new things <a person of seemingly endless invention, Thomas Edison held a world-record 1,093 patents> -- see CREATIVITY 1