Synonyms for ingenuity
ˌɪn dʒəˈnu ɪ ti, -ˈnyu-in·ge·nu·ity

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1. ingenuitynoun

   Address is that indefinable something which enables a man to gain his object without seeming exertion or contest, and generally with the favor and approval of those with whom he deals. It is a general power to direct to the matter in hand whatever qualities are most needed for it at the moment. It includes adroitness and discretion to know what to do or say and what to avoid; ingenuity to devise; readiness to speak or act; the dexterity that comes of practise; and tact, which is the power of fine touch as applied to human character and feeling. Courtesy and politeness are indispensable elements of good address. Compare SPEECH.

   Synonyms:
   address, address, adroitness, courtesy, dexterity, discretion, manners, politeness, readiness, tact

   Antonyms:
   awkwardness, boorishness, clownishness, clumsiness, fatuity, folly, ill manners, ill-breeding, rudeness, stupidity, unmannerliness, unwisdom

   Preposition:
   Address in dealing with opponents; the address of an accomplished intriguer; an address to the audience.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. inventiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, clevernessnoun

   the power of creative imagination

   Synonyms:
   smartness, brightness, cleverness, inventiveness, ingeniousness

2. ingenuity, ingeniousness, clevernessnoun

   the property of being ingenious

   "a plot of great ingenuity"; "the cleverness of its design"

   Synonyms:
   ingeniousness, smartness, brightness, cleverness, inventiveness

Matched Categories

1. • Superiority

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1. ingenuitynoun

   Synonyms:
   inventiveness, ingeniousness, ability, capableness, capacity, faculty, aptitude, aptness, cleverness, knack, turn, gift, genius

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1. List of paraphrases for "ingenuity":

   resourcefulness, inventiveness, cleverness, genius, wit, naivety

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How to use ingenuity in a sentence?

1. Sean Bisceglia:

   I am super passionate to get everyone back, what we are really missing is that creativity, and that spontaneity and the ingenuity and talking to your teammates face-to-face. The whole creativity has kind of been gutted without people being together. I've seen a big cultural effect of connecting to your co-workers.

2. Barack Obama:

   We know that human activity is changing the climate, we know that human ingenuity can do something about it. We're even starting to see that we might actually have the political will to succeed. So the time to heed the critics and cynics is past. The time to plead ignorance is surely past. The deniers are increasingly alone, on their own shrinking island.

3. Hannah Tandy:

   We all have something in common. We all have human ingenuity and we all have feelings. this is something we have actually talked about before.

4. Jill Adams:

   That does not mean we will see a 75 per cent decrease in the abortion rate or a corresponding 75 per cent increase in the birth rate. Far from it, we know that resourceful people will apply creativity and ingenuity and if they are pregnant and don't want to be, they will find a way not to be.

5. Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless":

   A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.