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the quality of being clever, original, and inventive
The ingeniousness of the design impressed every judge.
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From ingenious + -ness, from Latin ingeniosus ('clever, gifted'), from ingenium ('innate quality, talent'), from in- ('in') + gignere ('to beget').
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