ingenuity

noun

Etymology: From Latin ingenuitās.

1. The ability to solve difficult problems in original, clever, and inventive ways; ingeniousness.

   “The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.”

   “Poverty is the mother of ingenuity.”

2. An ingenuous action or thought.

   “Virility is sustained, preserved, even recaptured, by man's ingenuities, by exotic foods and drinks, by rare herbal compounds, by fantastical manipulations, goetic periapts.”

3. Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness

   “And therefore I apply my selfe to ingenuitie, and ever to speake truth and what I think[…].”