Words that Rhyme with invention
2 Syllable Words
gentian, henschen, mention, pension, tension
3 Syllable Words
ascension, attention, contention, convention, detention, dimension, dissension, extension, laurentian, pretension, prevention, retention, suspension
4 Syllable Words
apprehension, comprehension, condescension, hypertension, hypotension, reinvention
5 Syllable Words
misapprehension
Definitions of invention
n. The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing.
n. That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention.
n. Thought; idea.
n. A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.
n. The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.
n. The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts.