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All ingenuity synonyms

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noun ingenuity

  • dexterity — Dexterity is skill in using your hands, or sometimes your mind.
  • talent — a special natural ability or aptitude: a talent for drawing.
  • ability — Your ability to do something is the fact that you can do it.
  • intelligence — capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
  • gumption — initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness: With his gumption he'll make a success of himself.
  • brilliance — great brightness; radiance
  • wisdom — the quality or state of being wise; knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action; sagacity, discernment, or insight.
  • genius — an exceptional natural capacity of intellect, especially as shown in creative and original work in science, art, music, etc.: the genius of Mozart. Synonyms: intelligence, ingenuity, wit; brains.
  • wit — the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
  • shrewdness — astute or sharp in practical matters: a shrewd politician.
  • inventiveness — apt at inventing, devising, or contriving.
  • resourcefulness — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
  • skill — the ability, coming from one's knowledge, practice, aptitude, etc., to do something well: Carpentry was one of his many skills.
  • flair — a natural talent, aptitude, or ability; bent; knack: a flair for rhyming.
  • adroitness — expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
  • brightness — the condition of being bright
  • creativity — creative ability; artistic or intellectual inventiveness
  • astuteness — of keen penetration or discernment; sagacious: an astute analysis.
  • cunning — Someone who is cunning has the ability to achieve things in a clever way, often by deceiving other people.
  • brains — an animal's brain, cooked and eaten as food
  • smartness — to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
  • cleverness — mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.
  • imagination — the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.
  • originality — the quality or state of being original.
  • initiative — an introductory act or step; leading action: to take the initiative in making friends.
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