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The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.

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  1. n. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.
  2. n. That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature.
  3. n. The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation.
  4. n. the human act of creating
  5. n. an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone
  6. n. the event that occurred at the beginning of something
  7. n. the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
  8. n. everything that exists anywhere
  9. 1. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence. From the creation to the general doom. Shak. As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation. Locke. 2. That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature. We know that the whole creation groaneth. Rom. viii. 22. A dagger of the mind, a false creation. Shak. Choice pictures and creations of curious art. Beaconsfield. 3. The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation. An Irish peer of recent creation. Landor.
  10. n:100 n. the human act of creating n. an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone n. the event that occurred at the beginning of something n. (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence