All 4 Uses
ingenuity
in
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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- The analytical power should not be confounded with ample ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.†
*ingenuity = ability to solve problems in smart creative ways
- The constructive or combining power, by which ingenuity is usually manifested, and to which the phrenologists (I believe erroneously) have assigned a separate organ, supposing it a primitive faculty, has been so frequently seen in those whose intellect bordered otherwise upon idiocy, as to have attracted general observation among writers on morals.†
- Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater, indeed, than that between the fancy and the imagination, but of a character very strictly analogous.†
- I like him especially for one master stroke of cant, by which he has attained his reputation for ingenuity.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(ingenuity) the ability to solve problems in smart creative ways
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)