creative thinking, creativeness, creativity - the ability to create

concoction - the invention of a scheme or story to suit some purpose; "his testimony was a concoction"; "she has no peer in the concoction of mystery stories"

contrivance - the faculty of contriving; inventive skill; "his skillful contrivance of answers to every problem"

creation - an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone

creating by mental acts - the act of creating something by thinking

neologism, neology, coinage - the act of inventing a word or phrase

devisal, contrivance - the act of devising something