noun a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation.
— synonyms: invention
noun the creation of something in the mind.
— synonyms: invention, excogitation, conception, design
noun the act of starting something for the first time.
— synonyms: initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination, creation, introduction, instauration
Examples
“The others, whose time had been more actively employed, began to shew symptoms of innovation,—"the good wine did its good office." The frost of etiquette, and pride of birth, began to give way before the genial blessings of this benign constellation, and the formal appellatives with which the three dignitaries had hitherto addressed each other, were now familiarly abbreviated into Tully, Bally, and Killie.”