Genuinely vs Ingenuously - What's the difference?
genuinely | ingenuously |
In a genuine manner; truthfully, truly.
In an ingenuous manner; frankly, straightforwardly.
*, II.12:
*:Let us ingenuously confesse that only God and Faith hath told it us: for it is no lesson of Nature, nor comming from our reason.
*1723 , Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury , V:
*:I must ingenuously ackowledge the chief Motive of my leaving her was the Present of a New-Year's''-Gift she made me; but whether ''French'' or ''Neopolitan'', I leave to the Determination of the Sons of ''Galen .
As adverbs the difference between genuinely and ingenuously
is that genuinely is in a genuine manner; truthfully, truly while ingenuously is in an ingenuous manner; frankly, straightforwardly.genuinely
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- I thought they were joking at first, but it seemed they were genuinely interested in the talk about glaciers.
