0 the quality of being able to produce or create something new:
The organization has been blocked from generativity and innovation.
Our studies focus not on the accumulation of "true" answers, but rather on the generativity of the questions they open up.
He wonders about the constraints that the patent system put on generativity.
The device has no "generativity"— it does not invite or enable users to tinker with it, to improve upon it, to adapt it to their particular needs.
