Ingenuity(n.) The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.
Ingenuity(n.) Curiousness, or cleverness in design or contrivance; as, the ingenuity of a plan, or of mechanism.
Ingenuity(n.) Openness of heart; ingenuousness.
Ingenuous(a.) Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.
Ingenuous(a.) Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.
Ingenuous(a.) Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc.
Ingenuous(a.) Ingenious.
Ingenuously(adv.) In an ingenuous manner; openly; fairly; candidly; artlessly.
Ingenuousness(n.) The state or quality of being ingenuous; openness of heart; frankness.
Ingenuousness(n.) Ingenuity.
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