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Creativity vs. Intelligence

The main difference between Creativity and Intelligence is that Creativity is the ability to create new concepts, whereas Intelligence is the ability to utilize knowledge.

Key Differences

Creativity is a form of intelligence, while intelligence plays a role in creative thinking.
Janet White
Jan 21, 2020
Creativity could be attained by hard-working, on the flip side; Intelligence is God gifted.
Creativity does exist without creativity, whereas intelligence doesn’t exist with creativity.
Creativity has no worth if intelligent doesn’t perceive or understand it; on the other hand, intelligence has its worth.
Creativity is only one, conversely, intelligence that has different types and categories.

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Perceive problem
Have the knowledge to handle a problem
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Origin

Latin word
Advanced English linguistic

Ability

To create something new
To exploit knowledge

Scope With

Talent, imaginations, concepts, ideas, etc
Logic, experience, and rational thinking

Creativity and Intelligence Definitions

Creativity

Having the ability or power to create
Human beings are creative animals.

Intelligence

The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge
A person of extraordinary intelligence.

Creativity

Productive; creating.
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Intelligence

Information, especially secret information gathered about an actual or potential enemy or adversary.

Creativity

Characterized by originality and expressiveness; imaginative
Creative writing.

Intelligence

The gathering of such information
"Corporate intelligence relies on a slew of tools, some sophisticated, many quite basic" (Neil King and Jess Bravin).

Creativity

One who displays productive originality
The creatives in the advertising department.

Intelligence

An agency or organization whose purpose is to gather such information
An officer from military intelligence.

Creativity

The ability to use imagination to produce a novel idea or product.
His creativity is unsurpassed by his fellow students in the art class.
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Intelligence

An intelligent, incorporeal being, especially an angel.

Creativity

The ability to create

Intelligence

Of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to comprehend and learn.

Intelligence

The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.

Intelligence

(countable) An entity that has such capacities.

Intelligence

, often secret, about an enemy or about hostile activities.

Intelligence

(countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.

Intelligence

(dated) acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.

Intelligence

The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.

Intelligence

The capacity to know or understand; readiness of comprehension; the intellect, as a gift or an endowment.
And dimmed with darkness their intelligence.

Intelligence

Information communicated; news; notice; advice.
Intelligence is given where you are hid.

Intelligence

Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favorites.

Intelligence

Knowledge imparted or acquired, whether by study, research, or experience; general information.
I write as he that none intelligenceOf meters hath, ne flowers of sentence.

Intelligence

An intelligent being or spirit; - generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence.
The great Intelligences fairThat range above our mortal state,In circle round the blessed gate,Received and gave him welcome there.

Intelligence

The division within a military organization that gathers and evaluates information about an enemy.

Intelligence

The ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience

Intelligence

A unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy

Intelligence

Secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy);
We sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage

Intelligence

New information about specific and timely events;
They awaited news of the outcome

Intelligence

The operation of gathering information about an enemy

Creativity vs. Intelligence

Creativity refers to active imaginations and talent. Intelligence refers to their abilities. Creativity usually used with innovations, expertise, ideas, and concepts, etc. Intelligence used with an aspect of thinking, logic, and knowledge, etc. However, creativity means to create something or to perceive something. Intelligence means to acquire knowledge about something and to utilize it.

Creativity is to apply your intelligence to find a solution to a problem. Intelligence is to understand knowledge and information to find a solution to a problem. It is possible that the origin of word creativity has been lost, or it also seems that this word is from the new linguistic advanced English language. Word intelligence derived from the Latin word “intelligere or intelligentia.”

There is no test or method to measure creativity. However, Intelligence measured by the IQ test. IQ test gives us result in quantitative form or digital form. It also said that creativity is directly from God. Intelligence is a gift that is provided by God. Intelligence never gives progress without creativity, but a person may exist in this world full of competition with creativity.

Creative minds could create by using intelligent minds by using creative thoughts according to their boundaries. Creativity is the only one; it has no different types of verities. Intelligence divided into different categories, e.g., business intelligence, music intelligence, sales intelligence, defense intelligence, interpersonal intelligence, etc.

What is Creativity?

Word creativity means the capability to create such things that not exist already. Creativity thus enriched with inventiveness and coil round strong imagination. In other words, creativity is the potential to pop up with new ideas and new concepts in aspect to the previously existing ones thought. According to the Oxford dictionary, term creativity defines as “To use imaginations and motivational ideas to create or invent something new known as creativity.” A creative mind has the power to create new ideas, stories, fantasies, or things. Nevertheless, creativity is not just a talent that every person possesses. Creativity is the capacity to attain the world and its elements narratively to invent the undiscovered things and to provoke the solution of a problem.

In other quarters creativity is said to be a composite of two different processes, i.e., imaginations, thinking in a story form, and then its implementation. Hence, creativity is something more than intelligence and other frameworks related to already existing ideas and concepts — for instance, insights related to science fiction and other modern technology to design robots. A creative person has to break all existing boundaries regarding ideas and concepts to make a connection between story and imagination with reality. However, in simple words, term creativity means “to being innovative” that need your intelligence and wisdom and inspiration. It is all about to be curios.

What is Intelligence?

According to the Oxford dictionary, term intelligence defines as “capability to understand and acquire knowledge and other skills. Albert Einstein said that “knowledge is not a true sign of intelligence; the true sign of intelligence is imagination.” He also highlights that “creative thinking is a basic part of intelligence.” However, general intelligence is the capability or potential of a person’s intelligence that can be polished or improved with education, knowledge, maturity, sense of humor, rational, or other illogical thoughts.

Similarly, the rate of intelligence is different from individual to individual accordingly. Therefore, the measure of IQ test of a person’s intelligence varies from one to another person. Besides all these, from a psychological point of view, human intelligence can also be defined as “intelligence is a mental quality which consists of the capabilities of a person to learn from experiences and conditions and to adopt new situations and to handle the problem, its concepts and abstract. In other words, intelligence is the usage of knowledge to manipulate the environment. Generally, intelligence can also define as “cognitive problem-solving skills.” Intelligence is a mental capability that involves perceiving relationships, reasoning, calculating and learning, etc.

According to Robert Sternberg’s triarchic theory, mainly, there are three types of intelligence, i.e., creative intelligence, analytical intelligence, and practical intelligence. Genetically, intelligence influenced by more than one gene, specifically about 500 genes. Different researches claim that intelligence has the power to juggle memories or multiple thoughts at a single time. Alexander Wissner Gross also defines intelligence according to him, “intelligence is a force that acts to maximize the action with some strength and diversity of some possible assessable future in some time horizons.”

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