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