Synonyms for ingenuity
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Noun
1. Inventiveness
inventiveness, cleverness, resourcefulness, genius, shrewdness, skill, wit, knack, ability, efficiency, art, acuteness, capacity, gift, readiness, sharpness, faculty, address, ingeniousness, aptness, ingeniosity, dexterity
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Definitions
- n. 1
The ability to solve difficult problems in original, clever, and inventive ways; ingeniousness.
Poverty is the mother of ingenuity.
Forms
- Plural
- ingenuities → inventivenesses, clevernesses, resourcefulnesses, geniuses…
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Ingenuity is a form of genius, and cleverness of talent.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Example sentences
- genius No one recognized Tom's genius while he was alive.
- cleverness Granted his cleverness, he may still be mistaken.
- resourcefulness Use your resourcefulness to find creative solutions.
- invention This invention of his proved to be of great value.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| ingenuity | falling | |
| genius | steady | |
| cleverness | rising | |
| resourcefulness | steady | |
| inventiveness | steady | |
| invention | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- art1, wit1
- 4 letters
- gift1
- 5 letters
- skill1, knack1
- 6 letters
- genius2
- 7 letters
- ability4, address2, faculty3, aptness
- 8 letters
- capacity4
- 9 letters
- invention3, readiness3, dexterity4, sharpness2, acuteness3
- 10 letters
- efficiency4, cleverness3, shrewdness2
- 11 letters
- ingeniosity
- 13 letters
- inventiveness4, ingeniousness
- 15 letters
- resourcefulness4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (genius2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- ingéniosité
- Italiano
- ingegnosità
- Español
- ingenio