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Discerning vs Ingenious - What's the difference?

discerning | ingenious |

As adjectives the difference between discerning and ingenious

is that discerning is of keen insight or good judgement; perceptive while ingenious is displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent.

As a verb discerning

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun discerning

is discernment.

discerning

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of keen insight or good judgement; perceptive.

    • Related terms

    * discern

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • discernment
  • * 1605 , , I. iv. 224:
    • Either his notion weakens, his discernings / Are lethargied

    Anagrams

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    ingenious

    English

    Alternative forms

    * engenious

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent.
    • This fellow is ingenious ; he fixed a problem I didn't even know I had.
  • Characterized by genius; cleverly done or contrived.
    • That is an ingenious model of the atom.
  • Witty; original; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious.
    • He sent me an ingenious reply for an email.

    Usage notes

    Do not confuse with ingenuous.

    Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Related terms

    * engine * engineer * genius * ingeniosity * ingeniousness

    References

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