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Shrewdness vs Ingenuity - What's the difference?

shrewdness | ingenuity |

As nouns the difference between shrewdness and ingenuity

is that shrewdness is the quality of being shrewd while ingenuity is the ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.

shrewdness

English

Noun

(shrewdnesses)
  • The quality of being shrewd.
  • An invented collective name for a group of apes.

    • 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