Ingenuity Definition

ĭnjə-no͝oĭ-tē, -nyo͝o-
ingenuities
noun
ingenuities
The quality of being ingenuous.
Webster's New World
The quality of being ingenious; cleverness, originality, skill, etc.
Webster's New World
An ingenious device, stratagem, etc.
Webster's New World
Ingenuousness.
American Heritage

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."
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Singular:
ingenuity
Plural:
ingenuities

Origin of Ingenuity

  • Latin ingenuitās frankness (influenced by ingenious) from ingenuus ingenuous ingenuous

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin ingenuitās.

    From Wiktionary

Ingenuity Sentence Examples

  • The ingenuity of Madame Grotius at length devised a mode of escape.

  • The narrative presents a number of difficulties, which early commentators sought to solve with more ingenuity than success.

  • In the body of the work he displays considerable ingenuity in reducing his problems to simple equations, which admit either of direct solution, or fall into the class known as indeterminate equations.

  • As vice-chancellor of the university of Calcutta, Maine commented, with his usual pregnant ingenuity, on the results produced by the contact of Eastern and Western thought.

  • Much ingenuity has been spent upon the name and origin of the feast.

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