- A fictitious story - 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. - 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. - Thought; idea. - A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a
falsehood. - The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or
ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention. - 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.