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Word: Ingenuity
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 16th century (also in the senses ‘nobility’ and ‘ingenuousness’): from Latin ingenuitas ‘ingenuousness’, from ingenuus ‘inborn’. The current meaning arose by confusion of ingenuous with ingenious
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˌɪndʒɪˈnjuːɪti
Dialects: British English
Definition:
the quality of being clever, original, and inventive
Short Definition:quality of being clever and inventive
Examples:- considerable ingenuity must be employed in writing software
- the ingenuity of Haydn's scoring
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