ingenuity

English

ingenuity (usually uncountable, plural ingenuities)

The ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.
The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.

Poverty is the mother of ingenuity.

Ingenuity is one of the characteristics of a beaver.
(now rare) Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  And therefore I apply my selfe to ingenuitie, and ever to speake truth and what I think […].

ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems

Catalan: enginy (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 發明才能, 发明才能 (fāmíng cáinéng), 創造力 (zh), 创造力 (zh) (chuàngzàolì)
Danish: snedighed
Dutch: vernuft (nl) n
Finnish: nerokkuus (fi), nokkeluus (fi)
French: ingéniosité (fr) f
German: Einfallsreichtum (de) m, Findigkeit (de) f, Raffinesse (de) f, Scharfsinn (de) m
Hungarian: találékonyság (hu), leleményesség (hu)
Italian: ingegnosità (it), ingegno (it) m
Japanese: 独創性 (どくそうせい, dokusōsei)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kløkt m, oppfinnsomhet (no) m or f

Nynorsk: kløkt f

Portuguese: engenhosidade f
Romanian: ingeniozitate (ro) f, îndemânare (ro) f
Russian: нахо́дчивость (ru) f (naxódčivostʹ), изобрета́тельность (ru) f (izobretátelʹnostʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: eadar-ghnàth m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: инвенти́вно̄ст f

Roman: inventívnōst (sh) f
Slovak: vynaliezavosť f
Spanish: ingenio (es) m
Swedish: fyndighet c, sinnrikhet c, genialitet (sv) c
Turkish: beceri (tr), hüner (tr), marifet (tr), ustalık (tr)

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