Synonyms for invention
ɪnˈvɛn ʃənin·ven·tion

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1. inventionnoun

   Synonyms:
   discovery

2. inventionnoun

   Something invented.

   Synonyms:
   discovery

3. inventionnoun

   The act of inventing.

   The invention of the printing press was probably the most significant innovation of the medieval ages.

   Synonyms:
   discovery

4. inventionnoun

   The capacity to invent.

   It took quite a bit of invention to come up with a plan, but we did it.

   Synonyms:
   discovery

5. inventionnoun

   A small, self-contained composition, particularly those in J.S. Bach’s Two- and Three-part Inventions.

   I particularly like the inventions in C-minor.

   Synonyms:
   discovery

6. inventionnoun

   The act of discovering or finding; the act of finding out; discovery.

   That judicial method which serveth best for the invention of truth.

   Synonyms:
   discovery

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1. invention

   A contrivance or device may be either good or bad. A cheat is a mean advantage in a bargain; a fraud, any form of covert robbery or injury. Imposture is a deceitful contrivance for securing charity, credit, or consideration. A stratagem or maneuver may be of the good against the bad, as it were a skilful movement of war. A wile is usually but not necessarily evil.

   E'en children followed with endearing wile.

   Goldsmith Deserted Village, l. 184.

   A trick is often low, injurious, and malicious; we say a mean trick; the word is sometimes used playfully with less than its full meaning. A ruse or a blind may be quite innocent and harmless. An artifice is a carefully and delicately prepared contrivance for doing indirectly what one could not well do directly. A device is something studied out for promoting an end, as in a mechanism; the word is used of indirect action, often, but not necessarily directed to an evil, selfish, or injurious end. Finesse is especially subtle contrivance, delicate artifice, whether for good or evil. Compare FRAUD.

   Synonyms:
   art, artifice, blind, cheat, contrivance, craft, cunning, device, dodge, finesse, fraud, guile, imposture, machination, maneuver, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile

   Antonyms:
   artlessness, candor, fairness, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, ingenuousness, innocence, openness, simplicity, sincerity, truth

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1. invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, designnoun

   the creation of something in the mind

   Synonyms:
   intention, foundation, initiation, instauration, design, introduction, construct, designing, figure, creation, plan, excogitation, conception, aim, intent, blueprint, institution, founding, innovation, pattern, origination, concept, purpose

2. invention, innovationnoun

   a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation

   Synonyms:
   origination, excogitation, innovation, founding, foundation, instauration, creation, institution, design, initiation, introduction, conception

3. inventionnoun

   the act of inventing

   Synonyms:
   design, conception, innovation, excogitation

Matched Categories

1. • Creating By Mental Acts
   • Creation
   • Creativity

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1. inventionnoun

   Synonyms:
   inventing, origination, creation

2. inventionnoun

   Synonyms:
   contrivance, device, design

3. inventionnoun

   Synonyms:
   ingenuity, power of inventing

4. inventionnoun

   Synonyms:
   fabrication, forgery, fiction, coinage

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1. List of paraphrases for "invention":

   inventions, inventive, inventiveness, brainchild, fabrication, contrivance, inventor

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1. John Owen:

   Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.

2. Thorstein Veblen:

   Invention is the mother of necessity.

3. Vicente Lim:

   Necessity is the mother of invention. Danger is the father of preparation.

4. Thiruman Archunan:

   Love is a discovery, God is an invention.

5. Plato:

   Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.