inventiveness
B1CEFR level
22/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
The presence of an inventive step distinguishing an invention from the obvious development of existing knowledge.
The tribunal accepted that combining the two known elements involved genuine inventiveness.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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