ingenuity

The definition of ingenuity is the quality of being clever, creative or imaginative.

(noun)

An example of ingenuity is Steve Job's inventions of the iPhone and iPad.

See ingenuity in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

Origin: L ingenuitas < ingenuus (see ingenuous): ingenuitysense infl. by assoc. with ingenious

See ingenuity in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. in·ge·nu·i·ties

Inventive skill or imagination; cleverness.
Imaginative and clever design or construction: a narrative plot of great ingenuity.
An ingenious or imaginative contrivance.
Obsolete Ingenuousness.

Origin:

Origin: Latin ingenuitās, frankness (influenced by ingenious)

Origin: , from ingenuus, ingenuous; see ingenuous

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