Creativity is the ability to make new and original things. Encourage creativity, a burst of creativity, stifle creativity.
Research on it keeps finding the same dull answer: it comes from knowing a field well and then recombining what is in it, rather than from inspiration arriving out of nowhere. Constraints tend to help rather than hinder, which surprises people.
1nouncreativityThe ability to make new and original things.
“The art teacher encouraged the children's creativity by letting them paint whatever they liked.”
creativity is an ability.
Latin
creativus
English
creative
English, today
creativity
From creative + -ity. creative Latin creativus, from Latin creō. Equivalent to create + -ive. Displaced native orþanclīċ.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA