ingenuity
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin ingenuitās.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
ingenuity (usually uncountable, plural ingenuities)
- The ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.
- The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.
- Poverty is the mother of ingenuity.
- Ingenuity is one of the characteristics of a beaver.
- (now rare) Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness.
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1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, printed at London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821:, II.17:
- And therefore I apply my selfe to ingenuitie, and ever to speake truth and what I think […].
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Translations[edit]
ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems
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