English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
inventional (comparative more inventional, superlative most inventional)
- Of or pertaining to invention, creativity, or the act of devising something new.
- (rhetoric) Pertaining to rhetorical invention (the method used to find arguments or topoi in speech or writing).
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Citations
- 1876, William George Spencer, Inventional Geometry: A Series of Problems Intended to Familiarize the Pupil with Geometrical Conceptions, D. Appleton and Company:
- It is the object of this intellectual exercise to develop the inventional faculty.
- 1989, Robert C. Aden, “Inventional metaphors in Ronald Reagan's economic rhetoric”, in Quarterly Journal of Speech, volume 75, number 3, pages 336–346:
- Inventional metaphoric analysis provides communication scholars a tool with which to investigate rhetoric over a period of time.
- 1991, John Lyne, “The Public Understanding of Science—A Rhetorical Invention”, in Journal of Rhetoric, volume 10, number 2, JSTOR, page 690276:
- Now, although White at several points made apparent that he locates science outside of the narratological and inventional rhetorical knowledge he described...
- 2011 August 13, Neal Gabler, “The Elusive Big Idea”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Entrepreneurs have plenty of ideas, and some, like Steven P. Jobs of Apple, have come up with some brilliant ideas in the "inventional" sense of the word.
- 2021, Zhengying Guo, Ying Yuan, “Tracing and Refining the Inventional Topoi”, in Linguistics and Literature Studies, volume 9, number 2, pages 63–70:
- Tracing and Refining the Inventional Topoi...
- 2025, L. Keränen, “Inventional Resources for Critical Health Communication”, in Biocriticism in a Time of Precarity, Taylor & Francis:
- Biocriticism in a Time of Precarity: Inventional Resources for Critical Health Communication.