geniuses

Noun

genius (countable and uncountable, plural geniuses or genii)

1. (countable) Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art, etc.
   • She's a genius; she won a Nobel Prize at fifteen!

   Antonyms:

   idiot

2. (uncountable) Extraordinary mental capacity.
   • Excuse, therefore, the shortcomings of genius under the sudorific influence of the summer solstice; for be assured that the vertical sun, however it may dulcify and mature cherries, plums, and other fruitful ‘plumpitudes,’ is by no means favorable to the development of intellectual products.1853, Whirligig, quotee, edited by William Kidd, Kidd’s Own Journal; for Inter-Communications on Natural History, Popular Science, and Things in General, volume IV, number 8, London: William Spooner...
3. (uncountable) Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
   • a work of genius
4. (Roman, also, countable, figuratively) The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.
   • and the genius of the place: the growing enthusiasm for codified standards in the Army and Navy

   Synonyms:

   tutelary deity, spirit, liqueur, liquor, apparition, specter, vision

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