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What does ingenuity mean?

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Noun
  1. The ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.
  2. (now rare) Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness.
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The book, emphasising dinner table etiquette and rustic ingenuity remains a best-seller.
Creative ingenuity gone, the arts and industries would decay, sky-scrapers would crumble, plantations would be weedgrown, as they are in Haiti.
After all, the single goal of advertising is to stimulate demand by each and every means, and the ingenuity of admen knows no bounds.
The Egyptian's approach to the high sand rampart demonstrated simple ingenuity on their part.
The ingenuity of the contraption was that a string was wound around the alarm winder and the other end tied to the bolt.
Making butter, salting it, and packing it in wooden kegs for the Honolulu market required skill and ingenuity.

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