Successful salesmanship of the highest order requires not only a fine special training, but also a good education and a keen insight into human nature; it also requires resourcefulness, inventiveness and originality.
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Inventiveness
Synonyms for "inventiveness" (96 found)
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Closest matches (20)
Noun(7 words)
Adjective(1 words)
creative attribute
Strong matches (28)
Noun(6 words)
Adjective(3 words)
creative stylecreative traithuman creativity
Related words (48)
ingenuityinnovationinsidiousnessinventionitalian handnewnessnonimitationnoveltyone upmanshipone-upmanshiporiginalitypregnant imaginationproductivityprolificacyreadinessresourceresourcefulnesssatanic cunningsharpnessshiftiness
Verb(1 words)
makes art
Noun(8 words)
more creativemore revolutionarilyoriginalitypioneeringproductivenessprototypingresourcefulnessscientific innovator
Related word relations
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More general
8 entriescognitive activitycognitive traitcreative abilitycreative processcreative thinkingcreativenesscreativitymental quality
More specific
6 entriesCollocations
6 entriescultural inventivenessgreat inventivenessinventiveness in designscientific inventivenessstudent inventivenesstechnological inventiveness
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
1 entriesSample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Near-synonyms: resourcefulness, creativity, imagination
Source: wiktionary
For as was the land, such was the art of it while folk yet troubled themselves about such things; it strove little to impress people either by pomp or ingenuity: not unseldom it fell into commonplace, rarely it rose into majesty; yet was it never oppressive, never a slave’s nightmare or an insolent boast: and at its best it had an inventiveness, an individuality, that grander styles have never overpassed: […]
Source: wiktionary