whakaaetanga auaha
1. (noun) creative licence.
Ko te whakaaetanga auaha te whakakotiti a te ringatoi i te pono o tētahi mea, a te kaituhi rānei i te takoto tika o te kupu, kia rite tana mahinga toi ki tāna i hiahia ai (RMR 2017). / Creative licence is the distortion of reality by an artist, or grammatical conventions by a writer in order for their creative work to be more how they want it to be (RMR 2017).