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Ingenuity vs Boldness - What's the difference?

ingenuity | boldness | Related terms |

Ingenuity is a related term of boldness.


As nouns the difference between ingenuity and boldness

is that ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways while boldness is the state of being bold; courage.

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

    boldness

    English

    (wikipedia boldness)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The state of being bold; courage.
  • * Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill
    • Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward)
  • presumptuousness
  • (typography) The relative weight of a font; the thickness of its strokes.

    • Synonyms

    * See also