Contrivance vs Ingenuity - What's the difference?
contrivance | ingenuity |
a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task
a means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective
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something overly artful or artificial
The ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.
Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness.
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As nouns the difference between contrivance and ingenuity
is that contrivance is a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task while ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.contrivance
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(en noun)- And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlike contrivance .
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Noun
(en-noun)- The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.
- Poverty is the mother of ingenuity .
- Ingenuity is one of the characteristics of a beaver.
- And therefore I apply my selfe to ingenuitie , and ever to speake truth and what I think.