All ingenuity synonyms
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I i 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.