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ingenuity

noun
/ˌɪnd͡ʒəˈn(j)uːəti/

Etymology

From Latin ingenuitās.

  1. derived from ingenuitās

Definitions

  1. The ability to solve difficult problems in original, clever, and inventive ways

    The ability to solve difficult problems in original, clever, and inventive ways; ingeniousness.

    • The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.
    • Poverty is the mother of ingenuity.
    • Ingenuity is one of the characteristics of a beaver.

  2. An ingenuous action or thought.

    • Virility is sustained, preserved, even recaptured, by man's ingenuities, by exotic foods and drinks, by rare herbal compounds, by fantastical manipulations, goetic periapts.

  3. Ingenuousness

    Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness

    • And therefore I apply my selfe to ingenuitie, and ever to speake truth and what I think[…].

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Derived

disingenuity, hyperingenuity, ingenuitive, overingenuity, superingenuity, Yankee ingenuity

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