ingeniousness

/in'dʤi:njəsnis/

Thân thiện

An engineer demonstrates great ingeniousness in solving a complex problem.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • The quality of being ingenious: The state or characteristic of showing cleverness, originality, and inventiveness in thinking or creating.
   • Cleverness and skill in design or execution: The property of being cleverly and skillfully conceived or made.

Examples of Usage

• Noun:
  • The ingeniousness of the solution impressed the entire engineering team.
  • Her story is full of plot twists that reveal the author's remarkable ingeniousness.

Advanced Usage

• "A flash of ingeniousness": A sudden, brilliant, and clever idea.
  • The breakthrough came from a flash of ingeniousness during a casual conversation.

Variants and Related Words

• Ingenious (adj): Clever, original, and inventive.
  • He devised an ingenious method to solve the problem.
• Ingenuity (n): Often used interchangeably with 'ingeniousness' to mean cleverness and inventive skill.
  • The project's success depended on the team's ingenuity.

Synonyms

• Cleverness: The quality of being intelligent and able to understand things quickly.
• Inventiveness: The ability to create or design new things or to think originally.
• Creativity: The use of imagination or original ideas to create something.
• Resourcefulness: The ability to find quick and clever ways to overcome difficulties.

Related Phrases

• A stroke of ingeniousness: A single, particularly clever act or idea.
  • Fixing the leak with a piece of gum was a real stroke of ingeniousness.

Học thuật

Noun

1. the property of being ingenious
   • a plot of great ingenuity
   • the cleverness of its design
2. the power of creative imagination

Từ đồng nghĩa

• ingenuity
• cleverness
• inventiveness