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." "As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation."
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." "A dagger of the mind, a false creation." "Choice pictures and creations of curious art."
3.The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation. "An Irish peer of recent creation."