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Definition: Ingeniousness |
IngeniousnessNoun1. The power of creative imagination. 2. The property of being ingenious; "a plot of great ingenuity"; "the cleverness of its design". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: IngeniousnessSynonyms: cleverness (n), ingenuity (n), inventiveness (n). (additional references) |
| Language | Translations for "ingeniousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zgjuarsi (ability, acuteness, aptness, artfulness, cleverness, finesse, ingenuity, intelligence, mind, readiness, sagacity, shrewdness, smartness, wit). (various references) | |
Arabic | إبداع (creation, fantasy, ingenuity, magnum opus, novelty, originality, origination, phantasy), براعة (address, artfulness, artifice, cleverness, craft, craftiness, cunning, dexterity, facility, finesse, hand, ingenuity, knack, know how, mastery, proficiency, science, skill, skillfulness, sleight of hand, tact, trick, workmanship). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | остроумие (ingenuity, repartee, salt, sparkle, wit, witticism, wittiness), находчивост (acumen, ingenuity, know how, mercuriality, repartee, resource, resourcefulness, smartness), изобретателност (contrivance, ingenuity, invention). (various references) | |
Czech | vynalézavost (gumption, resourcefulness), šikovnost (dexterity, finesse, sconce). (various references) | |
Finnish | nerokkuus (genius, ingenuity). (various references) | |
French | ingéniosité (ingenuity, inventiveness), astuce. (various references) | |
German | genialität (ingenuity, brilliancy). (various references) | |
Greek | ευφυία (ability, braininess, cleverness, ingenuity, sagaciousness, shrewdness, smartness, subtlety, wit, wittiness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שנינות (cleverness, ingenuity, perspicacity, salt, sarcasm, subtlety, wit), כוח המצאה (ingenuity). (various references) | |
Hungarian | találékonyság (contrivance, ingenuity, resource), ügyesség (dexterity, skill, craftwork, deftness). (various references) | |
Manx | seyr-chreeaght, neucheiltynys (frankness), jeerid (alignment, candour, directness, faithfulness, frankness, honesty, sincerity, straightness, strictness), foshlid (blatancy, frankness), fiallid. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingeniousnessay.(various references) | |
Romanian | ingeniozitate (cleverness, cuteness, ingenuity, ingenuousness, inventiveness, sagacity, skill). (various references) | |
Russian | изобретательность (contrivance, ingenuity, invention, resourcefulness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | genijalnost (ingenuity). (various references) | |
Spanish | ingeniosidad (acumen, artifice, astuteness, ingenuity, resourcefulness). (various references) | |
Turkish | yaratıcılık (art, creativeness, creativity, genius, ingenuity, invention, productivity), ustalık (art, artfulness, craftsmanship, deftness, dexterity, expertness, facility, feat, finesse, hand, handiness, ingenuity, knack, masterliness, mastership, mastery, perfection, proficiency, skill, sleight, subtility, subtlety, virtuosity, wizardry, workmanship), marifet (artifice, attainments, cunning, gimmick, ingenuity, skill, stunt, talent, trick, wrinkle), beceriklilik (adroitness, agility, cleverness, dexterity, feat, handiness, skill, smartness, versatility), beceri (ability, accomplishment, accomplishments, address, adroitness, art, artfulness, artifice, attainments, craft, cunning, deftness, dexterity, faculty, feat, finesse, ingenuity, knack, know how, resource, savoir faire, science, skill, sleight, wizardry). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trí (wit), tài khéo léo (art, ingenuity). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ingeniousness": ingeniousnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ingeniousness" (pronounced 'In*gen"ious*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-i-n-n-n-o-s-s-s-u" | |
-4 letters: gneissose, ingenious, isogenies, noisiness, nonissues, nonsenses, sunniness, unionises. | |
-5 letters: enginous, enosises, geniuses, genoises, gneisses, goneness, ingenues, noesises, nonissue, nonsense, nonusing, nosiness, seisings, snugness, unionise, unseeing, unsonsie. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-i-n-n-n-o-s-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: indigenousness. | |
+2 letters: ingeniousnesses. | |
+3 letters: disingenuousness, indigenousnesses. | |
+4 letters: ignominiousnesses, unforgivingnesses. | |
+5 letters: disingenuousnesses, unconvincingnesses. | |
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