English
ingeniousness
From ingenious + -ness.
A compound of ingenious + -ness
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- ‘to produce, beget’
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Latin ingenium ‘innate or natural quality, natural capacity,…’
Latin ingeniōsus ‘endowed with good natural capacity, gifted…’
Old French engenious
Middle French ingénieux
English ingenious
Today it means
noun The condition of being ingenious.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / ingeniousness