Creativity and openness also correlate with lateral thinking, which is the tendency to quickly think of lots of concepts with low relatedness. Lateral thinking

Creativity and openness also correlate with lateral thinking, which is the tendency to quickly think of lots of concepts with low relatedness. Lateral thinking naturally correlates with facility in rapidly thinking of words with low relatedness. So if you can quickly think of a lot of words with low relatedness, that serves as a loose measure of openness and creativity.