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ingenuity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of ingenuity

the skill and imagination to create new things

the mystery writerʼs exceptional ingenuity enabled her to devise plots that always had readers guessing to the very end

Synonyms of ingenuity

cleverness, creativeness, creativity, imagination, imaginativeness, ingeniousness, innovativeness, invention, inventiveness, originality

Words Related to ingenuity

fecundity, fertility, fruitfulness, productiveness, productivity, prolificacy, prolificity, prolificness

capableness, resourcefulness

genius, giftedness, talent

fire, inspiration, muse

Near Antonyms of ingenuity

dryness, dullness (also dulness)

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