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Ingeniousness

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The condition of being ingenious.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality or state of being ingenious; ingenuity.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The quality of being ingenious or prompt in invention; ingenuity.

n. Cleverness; brightness; aptness.

n. Ingenuousness; candor.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the power of creative imagination

n. the property of being ingenious

Word Usage

"Without giving away too much, I must confess that I found the machinations behind the main storyline quite prosaic in comparison to what I was being led to expect from the sheer brilliance of exposition and ingeniousness of the main protagonists – especially Locke Lamora and his ability to outwit the devil himself."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

superiority high quality

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

ingenuity ingeniosity inventiveness Art artifice artfulness cleverness trickiness contrivance

Same Context

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