Industrious vs Ingenuity - What's the difference?

As an adjective industrious

is hard-working and persistent; worksome.

the ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.

(en adjective)

Hard-working and persistent; worksome.

I was very industrious in my effort to learn unicycle riding.

* See also

* industriousness

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(en-noun)

The ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.

The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.

Poverty is the mother of ingenuity .

Ingenuity is one of the characteristics of a beaver.

Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness.

*, II.17:

And therefore I apply my selfe to ingenuitie , and ever to speake truth and what I think.