The bringing forth of what was not there. Creation adds to the world rather than rearranging it.
Latin creatio (a bringing forth, creation), from creare (to bring forth, produce); the act of adding to the world rather than of rearranging what was already in it.
It is create's own noun, the bringing-forth held still long enough to be named, rather than the act performed. What it names never claims to have rearranged anything that came before it, only to have added something that had no place before.