ingenuity
noun
the quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful; inventiveness.
ingenuities
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pluralof ingenuity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The metal was made to look like painted wood, with jaunty bay windows and miniaturized versions of classic Williams ironwork on the outside, and space-saving ingenuities indoors.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
Yet the celebration of digitization renders the driver completely invisible—even though it is their knowledge and ingenuities that allow the technologies to appear frictionless.
From Slate ● Dec. 28, 2020
Galleries and museums are filled with walk-on-by works that, whatever their ingenuities, are basically just variations on old models, wall-filling exercises in easy, comfortable beauty.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2019
This analysis was an easy one, because the song is straight fours and its ingenuities are easy to describe.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2014
Hence the poet's ingenuities of adoration; hence often the monotony of artificial passion; hence, also, subtleties and curiosities of expression, and sought-out delicacies of style.
From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Edmund Gosse
