| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Something invented: brainchild, contrivance, device. See MACHINE, MAKE. 2. The power or ability to invent: creativeness, creativity, ingeniousness, ingenuity, inventiveness, originality. See ABILITY, MAKE. 3. Any fictitious idea accepted as part of an ideology by an uncritical group; a received idea: creation, fantasy, fiction, figment, myth. See BELIEF, REAL.
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