Definition for Invention:

• 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.

Synonyms for Invention:

• n.

  •
  • common sense,
  • intuition,
  • intelligence,
  • wisdom,
  • intellect,
  • reason,
  • clarity,
  • judgment,
  • brilliance.
  •
  • contraption,
  • a tissue of lies.
  •
  • Frankenstein's Monster,
  • creative,
  • coin,
  • devise,
  • make,
  • contrive,
  • ability.
  •
  • machine.
  •
  • belief,
  • real.
  •act (noun)
  • invention.
  •artifice (noun)
  • know how.
  •breakthrough (noun)
  • in creases,
  • in-crease,
  • in crease,
  • step forwards,
  • in-creases.
  •cognition (noun)
  • excogitation,
  • innovation,
  • design.
  •composition (noun)
  • formation,
  • constitution,
  • compilation,
  • embodiment,
  • inclusion,
  • composition,
  • combination.
  •conception (noun)
  • in seminations,
  • out set,
  • in-seminations,
  • out-set,
  • in-semination,
  • out-sets,
  • in semination,
  • out sets,
  • impregnations.
  •construction (noun)
  • out-line,
  • out lines,
  • dis-position,
  • dis position,
  • pre-fabrications,
  • pre fabrication,
  • prefabrications,
  • dis positions,
  • out-lines,
  • putting ups,
  • rearings,
  • dis-positions,
  • fabricatings,
  • pre-fabrication,
  • pre fabrications,
  • erectings,
  • out line,
  • pre fab.
  •contrivance (noun)
  • de signs,
  • de-sign,
  • de sign,
  • whatsises,
  • de-signs.
  •creation (noun)
  • production,
  • formulation,
  • development,
  • generation,
  • origination,
  • establishment.
  •creation, creativeness (noun)
  • coinage,
  • apparatus,
  • brainchild,
  • gimmick,
  • black box,
  • inventiveness,
  • inspiration,
  • creativity,
  • resourcefulness,
  • opus,
  • genius,
  • doodad,
  • gizmo,
  • novelty.
  •cutting edge (noun)
  • front line,
  • front lines,
  • advance guard,
  • forefronts,
  • fores,
  • avant-gardes,
  • cutting-edge,
  • newest technology.
  •device (noun)
  • re-source,
  • re sort,
  • out-fits,
  • whatchamacallits,
  • out-fit,
  • re sources,
  • out fit,
  • rube goldberg inventions,
  • re source,
  • whatsits,
  • re-sort,
  • re-sources,
  • re sorts,
  • re-sorts,
  • out fits.
  •discovery (noun)
  • sightings,
  • exposure,
  • certification,
  • Unearthing,
  • Certifications,
  • exploration.
  •excogitation (noun)
  • formulations.
  •fable (noun)
  • one for bird,
  • one for the bird,
  • old saws,
  • one for birds,
  • un truth,
  • un-truth,
  • old chestnuts,
  • un-truths,
  • tall stories,
  • un truths.
  •fabrication (noun)
  • song dance.
  •fabrication, lie (noun)
  • story,
  • prevarication,
  • fake,
  • sham,
  • yarn,
  • forgery,
  • deceit.
  •fancy (noun)
  • big eye,
  • romancings,
  • eyes fors,
  • envisionings,
  • pie sky,
  • pie in sky,
  • envisagements,
  • pie the sky.
  •fantasy (noun)
  • conceivings,
  • fancyings,
  • atlantises,
  • externalizings,
  • flight imagination,
  • mind trips,
  • air castles,
  • objectifyings,
  • fools paradise,
  • fool paradise.
  •fib (noun)
  • mis-representation,
  • un truthfulnesses,
  • un truthfulness,
  • mis-representations,
  • spinaches,
  • un-truthfulnesses,
  • mis representations,
  • un-truthfulness,
  • mis representation.
  •fiction (noun)
  • work imagination,
  • cliff-hangers,
  • cliff hanger,
  • storytellings,
  • terminological inexactitudes,
  • cliff hangers.
  •figment (noun)
  • castle in air,
  • castle the air,
  • castle air.
  •figment of the imagination (noun)
  • figment imagination,
  • creation the brain,
  • creature the imagination,
  • creature of imagination,
  • phantom of mind,
  • phantom mind,
  • figment-imagination,
  • creation brain,
  • figment the imagination,
  • creation of brain,
  • phantom the mind,
  • creature imagination.
  •handicraft (noun)
  • artisanship,
  • craftship.
  •handiwork (noun)
  • handwork,
  • workmanship.
  •ignis fatuus (noun)
  • Will-o-the-wisp,
  • will-o'-the-wisps,
  • will-o'-the-wisp.
  •illusion (noun)
  • mis beliefs,
  • ignus fatuu,
  • mis-conceptions,
  • mis apprehensions,
  • mis-apprehension,
  • mis-impressions,
  • mis apprehension,
  • mis-beliefs,
  • mis impressions,
  • idolisms,
  • mis-apprehensions,
  • mis belief,
  • misbeliefs,
  • mis-conception,
  • mis conceptions,
  • mis-impression,
  • makebelieve,
  • mis conception,
  • hocus pocus,
  • mis-belief,
  • paramnesias,
  • mis impression,
  • misimpressions.
  •imagination (noun)
  • contemplation,
  • Dreams,
  • supposition,
  • dream,
  • vision,
  • thinking,
  • creation,
  • Daydreams.
  •original (noun)
  • paradigm,
  • protoplast.
  •plan (noun)
  • blueprint,
  • aim,
  • arrangement,
  • idea,
  • anticipation,
  • plot,
  • plan,
  • chart,
  • scheme,
  • proposition,
  • expectation,
  • coordination,
  • intention,
  • premeditation.
  •pretense (noun)
  • pre-texts,
  • dis-play,
  • posings,
  • dis-plays,
  • pre-tense,
  • doubledealing,
  • dumb acts,
  • fakings,
  • pre-tenses,
  • fakeries,
  • pre texts,
  • pre tense,
  • dissimulations,
  • in-sincerities,
  • dis-simulation,
  • in sincerities,
  • dis simulations,
  • pre-text,
  • schticks,
  • dis simulation,
  • dis plays,
  • dis-simulations,
  • feignings,
  • in-sincerity,
  • dis play,
  • pre text,
  • in sincerity,
  • pre tenses.
  •product (noun)
  • After-math,
  • product,
  • byproduct,
  • decoctions,
  • synthetics,
  • decoction.
  •rumor (noun)
  • back-fence talks,
  • backfence talks,
  • back fence talks,
  • backfence talk,
  • dis patch,
  • dis-patch,
  • back fence talk,
  • dis-patches,
  • earfuls,
  • dis patches.
  •trick (noun)
  • de coy,
  • dis-guises,
  • de-coys,
  • de-coy,
  • dis guises,
  • dis guise,
  • de coys,
  • dis-guise.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • baloney,
  • mendacity,
  • snow job,
  • origin,
  • whopper,
  • white lie,
  • untruth,
  • hokum,
  • half-truth,
  • ingeniousness,
  • malarkey,
  • misinformation.
  •
  • bull,
  • falsehood,
  • fairy tale,
  • cover story,
  • expression,
  • ingenuity,
  • bs,
  • flannel,
  • bluff.
  •
  • concoction.
  •
  • put on.
  •
  • cover.
  •
  • line.

Paraphrases for Invention:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    creation.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    contrivance.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    innovation, intervention.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    inventiveness, fabrication, discovery, resourcefulness, ingenuity, imagination, brainchild, fiction, device.

Antonyms for Invention:

• n.

  • creation, creativeness
    steal, truth.
  • fabrication, lie
    reality.
  • Other antonyms:
    actuality, materiality, artlessness, imitation, dryness, innocence, facsimile, literalness, reproduction, reduplication, clone, fact, simplicity, realness, candor, replication, honesty, openness, fairness, sincerity, carbon copy, frankness, duplication, copy, duplicate, ingenuousness, dupe, guilelessness, literality, replica, dullness.

Invention Sentence Examples:

• I will claim nothing for this wonderful little invention.

• Trail and Writing Before the invention of writing the range of one man's influence over another was limited to the range of sight, sound and scent; besides this there was trail, of many kinds.

Hypernym for Invention:

• n.

  • act
    contrivance, devisal, coinage, neology, neologism.
  • cognition
    concoction, contrivance.

Hyponym for Invention:

• n.

  • act
    creating by mental acts.
  • cognition
    creativity, creative thinking, creativeness.