Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being ingenious or prompt in invention; ingenuity.
  • noun Cleverness; brightness; aptness.
  • noun Ingenuousness; candor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being ingenious; ingenuity.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The condition of being ingenious.

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

  • noun the power of creative imagination
  • noun the property of being ingenious

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Examples

  • 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.

    Scott Lynch - The Lies of Locke Lamora (Book Review) 2008

  • His cynical narrator is a zombie hunter/P.I., and every single detail of his world has been worked out with breathtaking ingeniousness.

    Lev Raphael: 6 Best Spell-Binding Novels of the Decade: A Magical Literary Tour Lev Raphael 2010

  • His cynical narrator is a zombie hunter/P.I., and every single detail of his world has been worked out with breathtaking ingeniousness.

    Lev Raphael: 6 Best Spell-Binding Novels of the Decade: A Magical Literary Tour Lev Raphael 2010

  • 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.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • The ingeniousness of such a potential plan stems from the former 'No' unionist camp being able to amalgamate the first preference votes of the status quo and Calman options from the multi-option referendum model and pretty much guarantee a win, particularly given that they are voting 'for' more powers and not 'against' separation.

    Are Unionist parties big game hunting? Jeff 2009

  • That Rossellini could accomplish this in projects hobbled by tiny budgets and various production and distribution mishaps attests to both his artistry and his ingeniousness.

    Rossellini's Television Masterworks 2009

  • As always, one is struck by the ingeniousness of our powerful elite in politics, media, and finance.

    Jan Herman: Barbara Ehrenreich Does It Again 2009

  • We appreciate the ingeniousness of that cake even if the folks at the cake show didn't!

    Fan "Art" 2009

  • The ingeniousness of such a potential plan stems from the former 'No' unionist camp being able to amalgamate the first preference votes of the status quo and Calman options from the multi-option referendum model and pretty much guarantee a win, particularly given that they are voting 'for' more powers and not 'against' separation.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Jeff 2009

  • It will be your ingeniousness that will bring the powers of our wind, of our sun, our geothermal, our oceans.

    Rep. Charles Rangel: Graduates: End the War and Help Get America Back on Track 2008

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