English
Etymology
From Latin ingenuitās.
Pronunciation
Noun
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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Translations
ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems
- Bulgarian: изобретателност (bg) (izobretatelnost)
- Catalan: enginy (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 發明才能／发明才能, 发明才能 (fāmíng cáinéng), 創造力／创造力 (zh) (chuàngzàolì), 创造力 (zh) (chuàngzàolì)
- Danish: snedighed
- Dutch: vernuft (nl) n
- Finnish: nerokkuus (fi), nokkeluus (fi), kekseliäisyys (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)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kløkt m, oppfinnsomhet (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: kløkt f
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- 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:
- Cyrillic: инвенти́вно̄ст f
- Roman: inventívnōst (sh) f
- Slovak: vynaliezavosť f
- Spanish: ingenio (es) m
- Swedish: fyndighet c, sinnrikhet c, genialitet (sv) c
- Turkish: beceri (tr), hüner (tr), marifet (tr), ustalık (tr)
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