>>>>"Ingenuity"??? I think you meant "Geniality"
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>>>Yes. Are these two words are not the same? I thought, they are < g >
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>>Not the same at all. "Ingenuity" is cleverness, the ability to look at something in an unusual way. "Geniality" is politeness.
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>>Tamar
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>I'd be willing to bet even money that Geniality isn't what he meant anyway. From the tone of the discussion, I'd bet the words he really mixed up were Ingenious and Ingenuous.
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>Alan

Ingenuous

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Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.

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Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.

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Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc.