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- pronunciation:
- ihn
ven
sh
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- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Explorer
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noun |
| definition 1: |
the act or process of inventing.
- similar words:
- contrivance
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| definition 2: |
something invented, esp. a new gadget, device, machine, or method.
- similar words:
- contrivance
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| definition 3: |
something imagined or fabricated, such as a story or a falsehood.
- similar words:
- fabrication, fiction, nonentity, tale
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| definition 4: |
the ability or capacity to invent, devise, originate, or imagine; inventiveness.
- similar words:
- conception
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| definition 5: |
a short musical piece, usu. developing one theme.
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| related words: |
fancy, fantasy, fiction, gadget, lie, machine, make-believe, manufacture, originality, patent, pretense, yarn |
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