invention
invention is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention. We entered by the drawbridge, which has an invention to let one fall if not premonished. Evelyn.
- 2.Thought; idea. Shak.
- 3.A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood. Filling their hearers With strange invention. Shak.
- 4.The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention. They lay no less than a want of invention to his charge; a capital crime, . . . for a poet is a maker. Dryden.
- 5.(Fine Arts, Rhet., etc.) The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts. Invention of the cross (Eccl.), a festival celebrated May 3d, in honor of the finding of our Savior's cross by St. Helena.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- analogy
- approximation
- association
- assumed
- assumption
- bare
- belief
- blue
- conceit
- condition
- conjecture
- dark
- data
- divination
- estimate
- guess
- guesswork
- hint
- hypothesis
- idea
- imagination
- impression
- inkling
- intimation
- loose
- metaphor
- metonymy
- nearness
- notion
- original
- plan
- position
- postulate
- postulation
- postulatum
- presumption
- presupposition
- proposal
- proposition
- rough
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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