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Descriptor English: Creativity
Descriptor Spanish: Creatividad
Descriptor Portuguese: Criatividade
Descriptor French: Créativité
Entry term(s): Abilities, Creative
Ability, Creative
Artistic Creativity
Creative Abilities
Creative Ability
Creative Thinking
Creativeness
Creativity, Artistic
Innovation
Innovativeness
Originality
Thinking, Creative
Tree number(s): F01.752.264
F02.463.785.302
SH1.020.010.090
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003405
Scope note: The ability to generate new ideas or images.
Annotation: human & animal (especially primates)
Public MeSH Note: 2013; see CREATIVENESS 1966-2012
History Note: 2013 (1966)
DeCS ID: 3423
Unique ID: D003405
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Date Established: 2013/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2020/05/27
Creativity - Preferred
Concept UI M0005303
Scope note The ability to generate new ideas or images.
Preferred term Creativity
Entry term(s) Abilities, Creative
Ability, Creative
Creative Abilities
Creative Ability
Creative Thinking
Creativeness
Thinking, Creative
Artistic Creativity - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000605825
Scope note A quality that humans can possess involving the ability to make, create, or perform.
Preferred term Artistic Creativity
Entry term(s) Creativity, Artistic
Originality - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000733032
Preferred term Originality
Innovativeness - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000733034
Preferred term Innovativeness
Entry term(s) Innovation



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