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Insightful vs Ingenuity - What's the difference?

insightful | ingenuity |

As an adjective insightful

is possessing insight.

As a noun ingenuity is

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

insightful

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Possessing insight.

    • 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