n., pl. -ties.

1. Inventive skill or imagination; cleverness.
2. Imaginative and clever design or construction: a narrative plot of great ingenuity.
3. An ingenious or imaginative contrivance.
4. Obsolete. Ingenuousness.

[Latin ingenuitās, frankness (influenced by INGENIOUS), from ingenuus, ingenuous. See ingenuous.]

noun

The power or ability to invent: creativeness, creativity, ingeniousness, invention, inventiveness, originality. See ability/inability, make/unmake.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: the power of creative imagination
  Synonyms: inventiveness, ingeniousness, cleverness

Meaning #2: the property of being ingenious
  Synonyms: ingeniousness, cleverness

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - genialitet, begavelse, sindrighed, snedighed

Nederlands (Dutch)
slimmigheid, vindingrijkheid, vernuft

Français (French)
n. - ingéniosité

Deutsch (German)
n. - Einfallsreichtum, Raffiniertheit, Geschicklichkeit

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - εξυπνάδα, ευφυϊα, οξύνοια, εφευρετικότητα

Italiano (Italian)
espediente, ingegnosità, inventiva

Português (Portuguese)
n. - criatividade (f)

Русский (Russian)
изобретательность

Español (Spanish)
n. - ingenio, habilidad, genialidad, inventiva, ingeniosidad

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - fyndighet, genialitet, skarpsinne

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
智巧, 精巧的设计, 创造力

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 智巧, 精巧的設計, 創造力

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 발명의 재주, 교묘함

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 発明の才, 独創性, 巧妙さ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) إبداع, براعه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮כושר המצאה, חריפות, התחמקות, יצירתיות‬

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