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Ingenuity vs Individuality - What's the difference?

ingenuity | individuality | Related terms |

Ingenuity is a related term of individuality.


As nouns the difference between ingenuity and individuality

is that ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways while individuality is (uncountable) the characteristics which contribute to the differentiation or distinction of someone or something from a group of otherwise comparable identity.

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.

    See also

    * industriousness

    individuality

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The characteristics which contribute to the differentiation or distinction of someone or something from a group of otherwise comparable identity.
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  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=6 citation , passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
  • (countable)  A person.
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