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Definition of Ingenuity
1. Noun. The power of creative imagination.
Generic synonyms: Creative Thinking, Creativeness, Creativity
Specialized synonyms: Imagination, Resource, Resourcefulness
Derivative terms: Ingenious, Inventive
2. Noun. The property of being ingenious. "The cleverness of its design"
Generic synonyms: High Quality, Superiority
Derivative terms: Clever, Ingenious
Definition of Ingenuity
1. n. The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.
Definition of Ingenuity
1. Noun. The ability to solve difficult problems, often in original and creative ways ¹
2. Noun. (rare) Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ingenuity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ingenuity
Literary usage of Ingenuity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... for all their famed ingenuity is no more. My friend, father Simon, and 1, ufed
to be very merry upon ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"The above are illustrations of paradoxes in which it requires a certain ingenuity
to arrive at the correct answer. Here is a paradox of another sort, ..."
3. Technology Review by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Association of Class Secretaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association (1901)
"increase his ingenuity ; for he soon after proposed an entirely novel method,
which is being worked upon now with every indication of ultimate success. ..."
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