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n. - A lack of imagination.

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Usage examples (4)
  • Adjective : creative writing. ,creative bookkeeping
  • But the same lack of invention, the same relative uncreativeness that has kept the German behind the Frenchman in things aerial has made him, regardless of his shallow...
  • The very size of the apparatus throws into crudest relief his weariness and uncreativeness.
  • But for his essential uncreativeness, he might well have become the composer uniquely representative of the artistic movement in which the late nineteenth-century...
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