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genius

noun
/ˈd͡ʒiː.ni.əs/UK/ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/US

Etymology

From Latin genius (“inborn nature; a tutelary deity of a person or place; wit, brilliance”), from gignō (“to beget, produce”), Old Latin genō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of genio. See also genus and genie.

  1. derived from genō
  2. borrowed from genius — “inborn nature; a tutelary deity of a person or place; wit, brilliance”

Definitions

  1. Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill

    Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art, etc.

    • She's a genius; she won a Nobel Prize at fifteen!
    • Marx stand höher, sah weiter, überblickte mehr und rascher als wir andern alle. Marx war ein Genie, wir andern höchstens Talente.

  2. Extraordinary mental capacity.

    • In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.

  3. Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.

    • a work of genius
    • to add a dash of cinnamon amid such umami was pure genius
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.

      • and the genius of the place: the growing enthusiasm for codified standards in the Army and Navy
      • We talk of genius still, but with thought how changed! The genius of Augustus was a tutelary demon, to be sworn by and to receive offerings on an altar as a deity.

    2. Ingenious, brilliant, very clever, or original.

      • What a genius idea!
      • Bjarte Birkeland asserts that the reason why Nynorsk writers of fiction have succeeded in coming so close to naked life is not that they are more genius than authors writing in Bokmal, but that they are using their mother tongue

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Derived

bonus genius, dumb genius, evil genius, geniocracy, geniolatry, geniosity, genius familiae, genius hominis, geniuslike, genius loci, genius locorum, geniusness, malus genius, nongenius, scenius, stroke of genius, SubGenius, supergenius, ungenius

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for genius. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA