INGENUITY
Dictionary entry overview: What does ingenuity mean?
• INGENUITY (noun)
The noun INGENUITY has 2 senses:
1. the power of creative imagination
2. the property of being ingenious
Familiarity information: INGENUITY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• INGENUITY (noun)
Meaning:
The power of creative imagination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
cleverness; ingeniousness; ingenuity; inventiveness
Hypernyms ("ingenuity" is a kind of...):
creative thinking; creativeness; creativity (the ability to create)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ingenuity"):
imagination; resource; resourcefulness (the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems)
Meaning:
The property of being ingenious
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
ingeniousness; ingenuity; cleverness
Context examples:
a plot of great ingenuity / the cleverness of its design
Hypernyms ("ingenuity" is a kind of...):
high quality; superiority (the quality of being superior)
