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Ingenuity vs Alertness - What's the difference?

ingenuity | alertness | Related terms |

Ingenuity is a related term of alertness.


As nouns the difference between ingenuity and alertness

is that ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways while alertness is the quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.

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

    alertness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.