>>>>>"Ingenuity"??? I think you meant "Geniality"
>>>>
>>>>Yes. Are these two words are not the same? I thought, they are < g >
>>>
>>>Not the same at all. "Ingenuity" is cleverness, the ability to look at something in an unusual way. "Geniality" is politeness.
>>>
>>>Tamar
>>
>>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.
>>
>>Alan
>
>Ingenuous
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc.

Yup. take a look at that 2nd definition. Generous, Magnanimous etc. Seems to me a much more likely mixup for someone who might have thought you used the wrong word (which you didn't). And look at how similar the two words are. It makes it very easy to believe that someone might pick the wrong one.

Of course, I could be wrong. Sergey is, of course, both anyway.