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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