English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin ingenuitās.
Pronunciation[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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, II.17:
- And therefore I apply my selfe to ingenuitie, and ever to speake truth and what I think […].
Translations[edit]
ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems
- Catalan: enginy (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 發明才能, 发明才能 (fāmíng cáinéng), 創造力 (zh), 创造力 (zh) (chuàngzàolì)
- Danish: snedighed
- Dutch: vernuft (nl) n
- Finnish: nerokkuus (fi), nokkeluus (fi)
- French: ingéniosité (fr) f
- German: Einfallsreichtum (de) m, Findigkeit (de) f, Raffinesse (de) f, Scharfsinn (de) m
- Hungarian: találékonyság (hu), leleményesség (hu)
- Italian: ingegnosità (it), ingegno (it) m
- Japanese: 独創性 (どくそうせい, dokusōsei)
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- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kløkt m, oppfinnsomhet (no) m, f
- Nynorsk: kløkt f
- Portuguese: engenhosidade f
- Romanian: ingeniozitate (ro) f, îndemânare (ro) f
- Russian: нахо́дчивость (ru) f (naxódčivostʹ), изобрета́тельность (ru) f (izobretátelʹnostʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: eadar-ghnàth m
- Serbo-Croatian: inventivnost (sh) f, инвентивност f
- Spanish: ingenio (es) m
- Swedish: fyndighet c, sinnrikhet c, genialitet c
- Turkish: beceri (tr), hüner (tr), marifet (tr), ustalık (tr)
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