1. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence. From the creation to the general doom. Shak. As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation. Locke.
2. That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature. We know that the whole creation groaneth. Rom. viii. 22. A dagger of the mind, a false creation. Shak. Choice pictures and creations of curious art. Beaconsfield.
3. The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation. An Irish peer of recent creation. Landor.
CREATIONAL
Cre*a"tion*al (-al), a.
Defn: Of or pertaining to creation.
CREATIONISM
Cre*a"tion*ism (-z'm), n.
Defn: The doctrine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; — opposed to traducianism.
CREATIVE
Cre*a"tive (-tv), a.
Defn: Having the power to create; exerting the act of creation.
"Creative talent." W. Irving.
The creative force exists in the germ. Whewell.
CREATIVENESS
Cre*a"tive*ness, n.