[はっそうりょく, hassouryoku] (n) expressive power; inventiveness; creative power [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Inventive \In*vent"ive\, a. [Cf. F. inventif.]
Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at
expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. --Dryden. --
{In*vent"ive*ly}, adv. -- {In*vent"ive*ness}, n.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
inventiveness
n 1: the power of creative imagination [syn: {inventiveness},
{ingeniousness}, {ingenuity}, {cleverness}]