ingenuity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the property of being ingenious

   a plot of great ingenuity

2. 2
   noun

   The ability to solve difficult problems in original, clever, and inventive ways; ingeniousness.

   The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.

3. 3
   noun

   An ingenuous action or thought.

   Virility is sustained, preserved, even recaptured, by man's ingenuities, by exotic foods and drinks, by rare herbal compounds, by fantastical manipulations, goetic periapts.

4. 4
   noun

   Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness

   And therefore I apply my selfe to ingenuitie, and ever to speake truth and what I think[…].

5. 5
   noun

   the power of creative imagination

Etymology

From Latin ingenuitās.