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Ingenuine vs Ingenuity - What's the difference?

ingenuine | ingenuity |

As an adjective ingenuine

is false, not genuine or authentic.

As a noun ingenuity is

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

ingenuine

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • false, not genuine or authentic.
  • * 1993 , Sam Kirscher, Working with Adult Incest Survivors: The Healing Journey (page 81)
    • This description of the female therapist may have been a transferential distortion, an accurate reading of an ingenuine therapeutic stance, or both.
  • * 1995 , J. P. Telotte, Replications: A Robotic History of the Science Fiction Film (page 164)
    • Yet those accomplishments may well be forged, that is, a bit ingenuine , since, as our films must inevitably do, they leave the very forces of repression intact

    Synonyms

    * ungenuine * false * fake * See also

    Antonyms

    * genuine * authentic * real * natural * true English words prefixed with in-

    ingenuity

    English

    Noun

    (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.

    Related terms

    * ingenious * ingenuous

    See also

    * industriousness