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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌɪnd͡ʒəˈn(j)uːəti/ Audio: en-us-ingenuity.ogg Forms: ingenuities [plural]
Etymology: From Latin ingenuitās. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|ingenuitās}} Latin ingenuitās Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} ingenuity (usually uncountable, plural ingenuities)
  1. The ability to solve difficult problems in original, clever, and inventive ways. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Thinking Translations (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems): изобретателност (izobretatelnost) (Bulgarian), enginy [masculine] (Catalan), 發明才能 (Chinese Mandarin), 发明才能 (fāmíng cáinéng) (Chinese Mandarin), 創造力 (Chinese Mandarin), 创造力 (chuàngzàolì) (Chinese Mandarin), snedighed (Danish), vernuft [neuter] (Dutch), nerokkuus (Finnish), nokkeluus (Finnish), kekseliäisyys (Finnish), ingéniosité [feminine] (French), enxeño [masculine] (Galician), Einfallsreichtum [masculine] (German), Findigkeit [feminine] (German), Raffinesse [feminine] (German), Scharfsinn [masculine] (German), találékonyság (Hungarian), leleményesség (Hungarian), ingenio (Interlingua), ingeniositate (Interlingua), ingegnosità (Italian), ingegno [masculine] (Italian), 独創性 (dokusōsei) (alt: どくそうせい) (Japanese), генија́лност (genijálnost) [feminine] (Macedonian), kløkt [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), oppfinnsomhet [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), kløkt [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), chytř [feminine] (Old Czech), صنعت (sanʼat, zanʼat) (Ottoman Turkish), هنر (hüner) (Ottoman Turkish), engenhosidade [feminine] (Portuguese), ingeniozitate [feminine] (Romanian), îndemânare [feminine] (Romanian), нахо́дчивость (naxódčivostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), изобрета́тельность (izobretátelʹnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), eadar-ghnàth [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), инвенти́вно̄ст [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), inventívnōst [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), vynaliezavosť [feminine] (Slovak), ingenio [masculine] (Spanish), fyndighet [common-gender] (Swedish), sinnrikhet [common-gender] (Swedish), genialitet [common-gender] (Swedish), beceri (Turkish), hüner (Turkish), marifet (Turkish), ustalık (Turkish)
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  2. (now rare) Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness Tags: archaic, uncountable, usually
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Yankee ingenuity Related terms: ingenious, ingenuous, industriousness

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.