Inventivity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being inventive. uncountable

    "But it does not seem quite evident that M. [Adolphe] Thiers is justified in taking to himself, or to his Administration, the sole merit of this situation. It is a consequence of the solidity and productive power of the country, rather than of any inventivity of his."

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"But it does not seem quite evident that M. [Adolphe] Thiers is justified in taking to himself, or to his Administration, the sole merit of this situation. It is a consequence of the solidity and productive power of the country, rather than of any inventivity of his."

Etymology

From inventive + -ity.

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