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UK
/ˌɪndʒɪnjˈuːɪtˌi/
]
[ US /ˌɪndʒəˈnuəˌti/ ]
[ US /ˌɪndʒəˈnuəˌti/ ]
NOUN
- the power of creative imagination
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the property of being ingenious
a plot of great ingenuity
the cleverness of its design
How To Use ingenuity In A Sentence
- Wendy couldn't help but admire the pluck and ingenuity these youngsters showed.
- His clocks were masterpieces of skill, precision, ingenuity, and determination.
- The differences may be in features, price, functionality, or anything else human ingenuity can devise. The goal in economic terms is to make a set of similar goods less substitutable for each other.
- The actors were merely furnished with a "plat," or plot of the performance, and were required to fill in and complete the outline, as their own ingenuity might suggest. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character
- But the aerial aspects of other segments were managed with great ingenuity. The Times Literary Supplement
- And then, of course, there was the skill, the accumulated knowledge and ingenuity, behind dyeworks and glassworks, not to mention ships less frail than they looked, since in the future they would ply as far as Britain .... Time Patrolman
- The artisans of Nice are very lazy, very needy, very aukward, and void of all ingenuity. Travels through France and Italy
- The problem in banking is that ingenuity is invested in schemes to circumvent regulation. Times, Sunday Times
- Yes, Donne's tricky and ingenious and he's enjoying his ingenuity.
- a plot of great ingenuity