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" (76 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (22)
Related words (38)
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3 entriesderived from
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
2 entriesTranslations
24 translations across 17 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἐπίνοια noun (quality of being inventive)
Belarusian
1 entries- вынахо́длівасць noun (quality of being inventive)
Czech
1 entries- vynalézavost noun (quality of being inventive)
Dutch
1 entries- vindingrijkheid noun (quality of being inventive)
Finnish
1 entries- kekseliäisyys noun (quality of being inventive)
French
1 entries- inventivité noun (quality of being inventive)
German
3 entries- Einfallsreichtum noun (quality of being inventive)
- Erfindungsgabe noun (quality of being inventive)
- Erfindungsreichtum noun (quality of being inventive)
Greek
1 entries- εφευρετικότητα noun (quality of being inventive)
Italian
3 entries- creatività noun (quality of being inventive)
- ingegno noun (quality of being inventive)
- inventiva noun (quality of being inventive)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- oppfinnsomhet noun (quality of being inventive)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- благохꙋдожьство noun (quality of being inventive)
Polish
2 entries- pomysłowość noun (quality of being inventive)
- wynalazczość noun (quality of being inventive)
Romanian
1 entries- inventivitate noun (quality of being inventive)
Russian
1 entries- изобрета́тельность noun (quality of being inventive)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- inventivnost noun (quality of being inventive)
Spanish
3 entries- creatividad noun (quality of being inventive)
- ingenio noun (quality of being inventive)
- inventiva noun (quality of being inventive)
Swedish
1 entries- uppfinningsrikedom noun (quality of being inventive)
Sample 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
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