invention (n.)
- adaptation
- apparition
- arrangement
- artifact
- authorship
- beginning
- brainchild
- breakthrough
- bubble
- canard
- catching
- child
- chimera
- coinage
- composition
- conception
- concoction
- contraption
- contrivance
- creation
- creativeness
- creativity
- creature
- delirium
- descant
- detection
- determination
- development
- device
- devising
- disclosure
- discovery
- distillation
- effect
- espial
- essence
- etude
- excavation
- exercise
- exhumation
- exposure
- extract
- extravaganza
- fable
- fabrication
- fake
- falsehood
- falsification
- fancy
- fantasy
- fecundity
- fertility
- fib
- fiction
- figment
- find
- finding
- forgery
- fruit
- gadget
- generation
- gizmo
- hallucination
- handiwork
- harmonization
- hatching
- illusion
- imagery
- imagination
- improvisation
- ingenuity
- innovation
- introduction
- inventiveness
- issue
- leap
- lie
- locating
- location
- maggot
- make-believe
- manufacture
- masterpiece
- mintage
- myth
- neologism
- nocturne
- novelty
- offspring
- opera
- opus
- orchestration
- original
- originality
- origination
- outcome
- outgrowth
- phantasm
- phantom
- piece
- prevarication
- product
- production
- productivity
- prolificacy
- recognition
- rediscovery
- result
- revelation
- romance
- score
- serendipity
- sham
- sonata
- sonatina
- spotting
- story
- strike
- study
- tale
- trio
- trip
- trove
- uncovering
- vapor
- variation
- vision
- whim
- whimsy
- work
- yarn
Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
Necessity, the mother of invention.
A weak invention of the enemy.
Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
