Ingenuity: Definition and part of speech

Ingenuity

  1. n. Openness of heart; ingenuousness.
  2. n. The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.
  3. n. Curiousness, or cleverness in design or contrivance; as, the ingenuity of a plan, or of mechanism.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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