Generative vs Creative - What's the difference?
generative | creative |
Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
* That generative particle. — Bentley
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Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these.
(of a created thing) Original, expressive and imaginative.
(set theory)
(countable) A person directly involved in a creative marketing process.
(uncountable) Artistic material used in advertising, e.g. photographs, drawings, or video.
As adjectives the difference between generative and creative
is that generative is having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing while creative is .generative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Of course, structures like those associated with (36) and (37) constitute only a tiny subset of the infinite set of well-formed sentence structures found in English. We can increase the Generative Capacity of our grammar ( = the set of structures which it generates) either by expanding the Lexicon on the one hand, or by expanding the Categorial Rules (i.e. Phrase Structure Rules) on the other.
Synonyms
* creativeAntonyms
* annihilativecreative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a creative dramatist who avoids cliche
- a creative new solution to an old problem
- a creative set
Derived terms
* creative accounting * creative differences * creative writingSynonyms
* inventive * originalAntonyms
* imitative (tend to model an extant thing ) * annihilative (tend to make extinct )Noun
- He is a visionary creative .
- Have you finished the creative for next week's email campaign?
- The design team has completed the creative for next month's multi-part ad campaign.
- I've included in my portfolio all the creative I've completed in my five year design career.