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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
Oscar Niemeyer

Meaning of "inventiveness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INVENTIVENESS

inventiveness  [ɪnˈvɛntɪvnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INVENTIVENESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Inventiveness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INVENTIVENESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Inventive step and non-obviousness

The inventive step and non-obviousness reflect a same general patentability requirement present in most patent laws, according to which an invention should be sufficiently inventive — i.e., non-obvious — in order to be patented. In other words, " nonobviousness principle asks whether the invention is an adequate distance beyond or above the state of the art." The expression "inventive step" is predominantly used in Europe, while the expression "non-obviousness" is predominantly used in United States patent law. The expression "inventiveness" is sometimes used as well. Although the basic principle is roughly the same, the assessment of the inventive step and non-obviousness varies from one country to another. For instance, the practice of the European Patent Office differs from the practice in the United Kingdom.

Definition of inventiveness in the English dictionary

The definition of inventiveness in the dictionary is the quality of being inventive.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INVENTIVENESS


assertiveness
əˈsɜːtɪvnɪs
attentiveness
əˈtɛntɪvnɪs
attractiveness
əˈtræktɪvnɪs
competitiveness
kəmˈpɛtɪtɪvnɪs
cost-effectiveness
ˌkɒstɪˈfɛktɪvnɪs
destructiveness
dɪˈstrʌktɪvnɪs
distinctiveness
dɪˈstɪŋktɪvnɪs
effectiveness
ɪˈfɛktɪvnɪs
ineffectiveness
ˌɪnɪˈfɛktɪvnɪs
inquisitiveness
ɪnˈkwɪzɪtɪvnɪs
perceptiveness
pəˈseptɪvnɪs
plaintiveness
ˈpleɪntɪvnɪs
protectiveness
prəˈtɛktɪvnɪs
receptiveness
rɪˈseptɪvnɪs
repetitiveness
rɪˈpetɪtɪvnɪs
representativeness
ˌrɛprɪˈzɛntətɪvnɪs
retentiveness
rɪˈtɛntɪvnɪs
seductiveness
sɪˈdʌktɪvnɪs
suggestiveness
səˈdʒɛstɪvnɪs
vindictiveness
vɪnˈdɪktɪvnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INVENTIVENESS

invendibility
invendible
invenit
invent
inventable
inventible
invention
inventional
inventionless
inventive
inventively
inventor
inventoriable
inventorial
inventorially
inventoried
inventories
inventory
inventory control
inventress

WORDS THAT END LIKE INVENTIVENESS

activeness
adhesiveness
aggressiveness
appropriateness
awareness
awesomeness
brand awareness
business
closeness
completeness
cuteness
defensiveness
doneness
hoarseness
likeness
oneness
responsiveness
self-awareness
soreness
uniqueness
whiteness

Synonyms and antonyms of inventiveness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INVENTIVENESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «inventiveness» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of inventiveness

Translation of «inventiveness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INVENTIVENESS

Find out the translation of inventiveness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of inventiveness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «inventiveness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

创造力
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inventiva
570 millions of speakers

English

inventiveness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आविष्कारशीलता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الابتكار
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

изобретательность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inventividade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

উদ্ভাবনের
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ingéniosité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Inventif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Einfallsreichtum
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

創作力
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

창의력
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Inventif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sáng tạo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

புதியது புனையும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Inventiveness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yaratıcılığı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

inventiva
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pomysłowość
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

винахідливість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

inventivitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ευρηματικότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vindingrykheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

uppfinnings
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

oppfinnsomhet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of inventiveness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INVENTIVENESS»

The term «inventiveness» is regularly used and occupies the 85.107 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INVENTIVENESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «inventiveness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «inventiveness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about inventiveness

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10 QUOTES WITH «INVENTIVENESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word inventiveness.
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Zygmunt Bauman
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
2
John Bruton
The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!
3
Nina Fedoroff
We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water and grow crops.
4
Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin
Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.
5
Bill James
Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We are fantastically good at identifying and developing athletic skills - better than we are, really, at almost anything else. We are quite good at developing and rewarding inventiveness.
6
Oscar Niemeyer
The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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Mark Pagel
We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.
8
Rand Paul
American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
9
Daniel H. Pink
What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.
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Dennis Potter
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INVENTIVENESS»

Discover the use of inventiveness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to inventiveness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Intellectual Property Law and Innovation
[Limitations of the system] Notwithstanding Kingston's and other voices raised in support, the requirement of inventiveness in the patent system is seen by some as archaic, reminiscent of the industrial revolution, when the patent system ...
William van Caenegem, 2007
2
The Singularity of Literature
Whereas the experience of originality in art, as in other fields, is a matter of re- creating the past, artistic inventiveness — unlike inventiveness in science, mathematics, economics, or politics, which is not clearly distinguishable from originality ...
Derek Attridge, 2004
3
American English: An Introduction
Inventiveness is conceived here as a property of language that produces new words. We will examine exactly which word-formation processes have been most productive in American English. Another aspect of inventiveness, what I will call ...
Zoltan Kovecses, 2000
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Research Methods for the Self-Study of Practice
In using the idea of a living theory methodology I want to stress that this includes the unique contribution of an individual's methodological inventiveness in the creation of a living theory, rather than referring to some overarching set of principles ...
Deborah L. Tidwell, Melissa L. Heston, Linda May Fitzgerald, 2009
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Technological Systems in the Bio Industries: An ...
It is clear from the analysis that inventiveness differs among firms, with some firms not patenting at all and some firms having as many as 12 patents per year. To reveal the distribution of inventiveness, in Table 7.6 the NTBFs are classified into  ...
B. Carlsson, 2002
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Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities
Viewed as a trend, the history of mutual influence between technology and community creates a vortex of inventiveness that propels both forward. The inventiveness of the technology sector is changing the possibilities for communities, what ...
Etienne Wenger, Nancy White, John D. Smith, 2009
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Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent
Because inventiveness is a talent not usually identified and nourished in the traditional curriculum of schools, it is important to promote inventiveness programs, which are described in this entry. Inventiveness Programs Structured invention ...
Barbara Kerr, 2009
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Sociology of Progress
An interesting classification of societies has been obscured by the conflation of inventiveness and potential for discovery with innova- tiveness, in most if not all the literature on social change. On the one hand there are those societies that ...
Leslie Sklair, 2002
9
The Stamp of Fantasy: The Visual Inventiveness of ...
This volume presents the extraordinary inventiveness in postcard production that unites elements of popular culture with photographic images.
Clâement Châeroux, Ute Eskildsen, 2007
10
What is Life? The Next Fifty Years: Speculations on the ...
The. evolution. of. human. inventiveness. JARED DIAMOND Department of Physiology, University of California Medical School, Los Angeles, California How did we humans come to be so different from other animals? That question could not ...
Michael P. Murphy, Luke A. J. O'Neill, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INVENTIVENESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term inventiveness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Help me prepare to be a dunk contest judge - SBNation.com
... yet made to look simple by the dunker. I'll be hand-calculating S/D ratio all night. Other factors include the dunker's swag and inventiveness. «SB Nation, Jul 15»
2
When Great Chefs Swap Kitchens - The New Yorker
As both a cook and a chef, Scabin excels at the sort of off-script inventiveness required of an event like the Shuffle. He told me the day before ... «The New Yorker, Jul 15»
3
'Quicksand', by Steve Toltz - FT.com
... sound like the most depressing read ever, don't be fooled: this is a book shot through with mordant humour and sizzling inventiveness. «Financial Times, Jul 15»
4
Truckee sushi spot gets new name, new owner and a fresh menu …
Their expertise and inventiveness also come out in MakiAli's sauces and specialty items, like the blackened ahi. The ahi ruby rare is boldly ... «Sierra Sun, Jul 15»
5
Why We All Need to Make the Internet Fun Again | Re/code
This doesn't just constrain us as people, but threatens to impede the very inventiveness that the Internet industry depends on to continue ... «Re/code, Jul 15»
6
Five of the Toughest Challenges Startup Founders will have to Deal …
Over the years I've seen companies turn out great products, but when it came time to capitalize on their inventiveness, they were left scratching ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
7
Neo 80, a Melrose fashion rock star in the - Los Angeles Times
... aluminum chaise lounge woven with the same material — showcases the designers' sense of out-there style and playful inventiveness. «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
8
Greenness: The World's Only Sustainable Life Form | Live Trading …
It has been man's inventiveness that caused him to abandon the foundation food for all animal life that must be at the bottom of the food chain, ... «Live Trading News, Jul 15»
9
Thoughts after a few days of cycling - Livemint
An unfit Indian middle-class style body is one reason, perhaps the main one, between our lack of inventiveness, and our passive acceptance of ... «Livemint, Jul 15»
10
African brands: Fight for your copyright | East & Horn Africa
Similarly, a patent system that requires novelty, inventiveness and industrial application may not be the best means of protecting traditional ... «The Africa Report, Jul 15»

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