Synonyms for invention
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Device
design, imagination, innovation, contrivance, conception, creation, artifice, origination, excogitation, device dated
2. Fabrication
fabrication, myth, story, fiction, coinage, fable, lie, falsehood, figment, fib, forgery dated
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
Something invented.
I’m afraid there was no burglar. It was all the housekeeper’s invention.
- n. 2
The act of inventing.
The invention of the printing press was probably the most significant innovation of the medieval ages.
Forms
- Plural
- inventions → designs, imaginations, innovations, contrivances…
Example sentences
- innovation Science is essential for innovation and progress.
- discovery Santiago told Rima about his horrifying discovery.
- ingenuity Gabriel survived using his ingenuity and determination.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| invention | steady | |
| innovation | rising | |
| contrivance | falling | |
| excogitation | falling | |
| discovery | steady | |
| ingenuity | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- lie1, fib1
- 4 letters
- myth1
- 5 letters
- story2, fable2
- 6 letters
- design2, device2
- 7 letters
- fiction2, forgery3, coinage2, figment2
- 8 letters
- creation3, artifice3
- 9 letters
- discovery4, ingenuity5, falsehood2
- 10 letters
- innovation4, conception3
- 11 letters
- composition4, imagination5, fabrication4, origination5, contrivance3
- 12 letters
- excogitation
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (story2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- invention
- Italiano
- invenzione
- Español
- invención
- Deutsch
- Erfindung
- Català
- invenció