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ingenuities

ingenuities is the plural of ingenuity.

Meaning of ingenuity

Noun

ingenuity (usually uncountable, plural ingenuities)

  1. (usually) The ability to solve difficult problems in original, clever, and inventive ways; ingeniousness.
    • The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.
  2. (usually) An ingenuous action or thought.
    • Virility is sustained, preserved, even recaptured, by man's ingenuities, by exotic foods and drinks, by rare herbal compounds, by fantastical manipulations, goetic periapts.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii
  3. (archaic, usually) Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness
    • And therefore I apply my selfe to ingenuitie, and ever to speake truth and what I think[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Questions about ingenuities

What is ingenuities the plural of?
Ingenuities is the plural of ingenuity.

Words near ingenuities in the dictionary

  1. ingenu
  2. ingenue
  3. ingenues
  4. ingenui
  5. ingenuine
  6. ingenuities
  7. ingenuitive
  8. ingenuitous
  9. ingenuity
  10. ingenuous
  11. ingenuously

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