meaning of ingenuity
1. The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.
2. Curiousness, or cleverness in design or contrivance; as, the ingenuity of a plan, or of mechanism.
3. Openness of heart; ingenuousness.
4. the property of being ingenious; "a plot of great ingenuity"; "the cleverness of its
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