English-Dutch translations for ingenuity

• vernuft
  De informatiemaatschappij is een voortbrengsel van het menselijk vernuft dat ons nieuwe instrumenten en nieuwe mogelijkheden verschaft om de kwaliteit van ons bestaan te verbeteren. The information society is a product of human ingenuity which makes new instruments and opportunities available to us to improve our quality of life.

Definition of ingenuity

• The ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways
• Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness

Examples

• The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians
• Poverty is the mother of ingenuity
• Ingenuity is one of the characteristics of a beaver

Related words

• ingenue
• disingenuous
• ingenuous
• ingenuousness
• disingenuously
• disingenuousness
• ingenuine