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ingenuity

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  • //ˌɪnd͡ʒəˈn(j)uːəti//

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

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  1. 1

    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.

    Half the ingenuity lavished on news—by news we mean the topics of the day as connected with their own circle—half this ingenuity would set up a whole Society of Antiquaries, and immortalise at least a dozen of them.

  2. 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. 3

    arcaicoIngenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness

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

Etimologia

From Latin ingenuitās.

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