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What is the noun for ingenue?

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genius
  1. (eulogistic) Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.
  2. Extraordinary mental capacity.
  3. Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
  4. (Roman) The guardian spirit of a place or person.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “The boy was already a mathematical genius at the age of twelve.”
      “Bertha would regularly use her genius to craft eloquent phrases replete with bombastry.”
      “This pair of stilettos demonstrate Jimmy's genius as a designer.”
ingenue
  1. An innocent, unsophisticated, naïve, wholesome girl or young woman.
  2. A dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role.
  3. (rare) An innocent, unsophisticated, naïve, wholesome person.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The ingenue was lured into signing a contract she did not fully understand, highlighting her vulnerability as an innocent and easily manipulated young person.”
      “The slim volume is illustrated with photographs of Bainbridge as a wide-eyed ingenue.”
      “I've been asked my opinion, then called a woolly-minded idealist, an economic ingenue.”
ingenuity
  1. The ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.
  2. (now rare) Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Its imitative qualities signified both technological ingenuity and second-rate cheapness.”
      “Besides his own ingenuity, he used a tile setter's simple tools and a window washer's belt and buckle.”
      “The two artists are very good at glitchy, abstract manipulations, here without remorse and full of ingenuity.”
ingenuousness
  1. The condition of being ingenuous.
  2. (countable) An ingenuous behavior.
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    1. “Is it courage, or else mere ingenuousness, motivating Parnell's refusal to reconcile these domains?”
      “He said it without immediately realizing the ingenuousness of the remark.”
      “But what's captivating about this book is its candor, its ingenuousness, and really its alien-ness.”
geniality
  1. The quality of being genial; friendly cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.
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    1. “People still spoke of the startling geniality of its citizens and the rare peace of its neighbourhood.”
      “It made him single-minded and uncompromising, and he was not known for his geniality.”
      “I doubt that anyone, even someone with the president's geniality and popularity could get much through the Senate these days.”
ingeny
  1. (obsolete) natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity
ingeniousness
  1. The condition of being ingenious.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “So great is his ingeniousness in this domain that, to our knowledge, none of the processes described by him had ever been referred to before by any of his predecessors.”
      “The coffee was excellent, thanks to the ingeniousness of the machine that made it.”
      “In the administrative building several display cases of contraband items and homemade weapons give evidence to prisoners' ingeniousness.”
ingeniosity
  1. The quality of being ingenious.
ingenie
  1. Obsolete form of ingeny.
genii
  1. (Roman) plural of genius; guardian spirits
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The niches perhaps also recall Roman lararia, and the snakes the protective genii associated with such household shrines.”
      “The evil genii at the helm in fact want Dean to be the man they run against.”
      “These are the titans or primitive genii, fallen angels, etc., who existed on the Earth before the First Root Race appeared upon the Earth.”
ingenuousnesses
ingeniousnesses
genialities
ingenuities
  1. plural of ingenuity
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It is full of busy ingenuities that smack of art school — but of art-school studios, not seminars.”
      “The problems of form and function will yield only to a joint solution that makes the ingenuities of the most ambitious novel writing seem like a five-finger exercise.”
      “The most versatile craftsman of the Renaissance was Josquin, whose music displays a continual variety of contrapuntal ingenuities, including melodic imitation.”
ingenues
  1. plural of ingenue
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  3. Examples:
    1. “And sure, actresses and ingenues were getting excited about it after the huge gains.”
      “I discovered my two ingenues might have been taken from the Forest Home!”
      “I didn't know that your taste ran to ingenues to such an extent.”
geniuses
  1. plural of genius
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  3. Examples:
    1. “As French is the universal language of culture what could be more natural than Frenchifying the names of artistic geniuses from other countries?”
      “The idea that the great work of the world is done by shining geniuses is false.”
      “Others, a minority, posed as misplaced geniuses, intimating that teaching us was way beneath them and was only done for reasons of need.”
genii
  1. plural of genie
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The niches perhaps also recall Roman lararia, and the snakes the protective genii associated with such household shrines.”
      “The evil genii at the helm in fact want Dean to be the man they run against.”
      “These are the titans or primitive genii, fallen angels, etc., who existed on the Earth before the First Root Race appeared upon the Earth.”
genies
  1. plural of genie
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Can she melt her tyrant husband's cold heart with her tales of treasures, monsters, genies, magic and romance and create a true story of her own?”
      “Journey into the land of magic carpets, palaces and genies, as Kingston experiences a taste of the Middle East.”
      “It's sales prompted a reissue on compact disc in 1998 and once again the cover features our funksters as genies ready to grant our wishes.”
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