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scenius

noun
/siːni.əs/

Etymology

Blend of scene (“subculture”) + genius, sometimes attributed to Brian Eno.

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

Definitions

  1. The intelligence of a whole operation or group of people

    The intelligence of a whole operation or group of people; collective creativity.

    • Tim Berners-Lee has ascribed his own tech breakthrough to the “scenius”: “Most of the technology involved in the web . . . had been designed already, I just had to put them together.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for scenius. 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