Ingenuity

[in-juh-noo-i-tee, -nyoo-] /ˌɪn dʒəˈnu ɪ ti, -ˈnyu-/

noun, plural ingenuities for 3.
1.
the quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful; inventiveness:
a designer of great ingenuity.
2.
cleverness or skillfulness of conception or design:
a device of great ingenuity.
3.
an contrivance or device.
4.
Obsolete. .
/ˌɪndʒɪˈnjuːɪtɪ/
noun (pl) -ties
1.
inventive talent; cleverness
2.
an ingenious device, act, etc
3.
(archaic) frankness; candour
n.

1590s, “honor, nobility,” from Middle French ingénuité and directly from Latin ingenuitatem (nominative ingenuitas) “condition of a free-born man,” figuratively “generosity, noble-mindedness,” from ingenuus (see ingenuous). Etymologically, this word belongs to ingenuous, but in 17c. ingenious and ingenuous so often were confused (even by Shakespeare) that ingenuity has acquired the meaning “capacity for invention or construction” (first attested 1640s).

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