1. (n.) The quality or power of ready invention; quickness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.
2. (n.) Curiousness, or cleverness in design or contrivance; as, the ingenuity of a plan, or of mechanism.
3. (n.) Openness of heart; ingenuousness.
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