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Ingenuity vs Magnificence - What's the difference?

ingenuity | magnificence | Related terms |

Ingenuity is a related term of magnificence.


As nouns the difference between ingenuity and magnificence

is that ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways while magnificence is grandeur, brilliance, lavishness or splendor.

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

    magnificence

    English

    Noun

  • grandeur, brilliance, lavishness or splendor
  • The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent.
  • impressiveness