Ingenuity /(?)/

In·ge·nu·i·ty

Ingenuity

n.
  1. The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.
    All the means which human ingenuity has contrived.
    — Blair.
  2. Curiousness, or cleverness in design or contrivance; as, the ingenuity of a plan, or of mechanism.
    He gives . . . To artist ingenuity and skill.
  3. Openness of heart; ingenuousness. [Obs.]
    The stings and remorses of natural ingenuity, a principle that men scarcely ever shake off, as long as they carry anything of human nature about them.