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noun
cleverness or inventive skill; ingenuity
The contraption was a marvel of homespun ingeniosity.
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From Medieval Latin ingeniositas, from Latin ingeniosus ('clever, gifted'), from ingenium ('innate quality, talent'), from in- ('in') + gignere ('to beget, produce').
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