Ingeniousness
/ˌɪnˈdʒiːniəsnəs/noun
The quality of being clever, inventive, and resourceful.
Did you know?Ingeniousness comes from Latin ingenium, a word for innate talent or natural disposition, not from anything occult — but it later helped shape the English idea of a mind that can almost seem magically inventive.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*ǵenh₁-
“to beget, produce, give birth”
Latin
Latin
ingenium
“inborn nature, talent, disposition; native ability”
Latin
Latin
ingeniōsus
“talented, clever, resourceful; full of natural ability”
Middle English
English
ingenious
“having or showing native talent, skill, or cleverness”
17th Century
English
ingeniousness
“the quality of being ingenious; inventive cleverness”
Modern English
English
ingeniousness
“the quality of being clever, inventive, and resourceful”