Define Ingenuity Meaning

Ingenue
A stock character in opera, theater, and literature. She is a girl or young woman who is endearingly wholesome and innocent. Very similar to the girl next door.

She is generally portrayed as sweet, gentle, virtuous, beautiful, demure, with the wide-eyed innocence of a child and she is very often naive. She is often the victim of the libertine, whom she may have mistaken for the hero. Often she still lives with her parents, owing to her youth and naivete.
She is usually the foil for the dangerously seductive femme fatale.
She is often involved in a romantic subplot, usually with the boy next door and the romance is typically innocent and chaste.
The ingenue is typically played by a lyric soprano in opera and musicals.

The ingenue includes the following characters:

Joanna in Sweeney Todd
Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz
Giselle in Enchanted
Pollyanna
Snow White
Rapunzel
Cosette in Les Miserables
Sandy in Grease
Maria in West Side Story
Christine in Phantom of the Opera
Ophelia in Hamlet
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet
Ariel in The Little Mermaid
Belle in Beauty and the Beast
Penny in Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Mimi in La Boheme
Tatiana in Eugene Onegin
By Melany
Ingenue
A female character in drama or literature. She is a sweet, pretty, if somewhat naive, young woman. To our modern eyes, she's often seen as this meek little mouse.

The ingenue is played by a light soprano in opera or musicals.

Judy Garland's protrayal of Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz is the epitome of an ingenue.
By Bea
Ingenuous
1. Lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness; artless. 2. Openly straightforward or frank; candid. See Synonyms at naive. 3. Obsolete Ingenious.
Etymology

Being very dull and stupid, Bob was a very ingenuous man.
By Jeannine
African Ingenuity
Black excellence, original, creativity, imagination, innovation, and inventive.

African ingenuity built the pyramids by being able to move massive stone blocks across the desert by wetting the sand in front of a contraption built to pull the heavy objects.
By Vivie
Stoner Ingenuity
The creative effort stoners put into the development and construction of various smoking devices. Without Stoner Ingenuity we would not have apple pipes or gravity bongs.

"Dude, I just made a pipe out of a tampon and some tin foil!"
"That's Stoner Ingenuity for you"
By Maible
Redneck Ingenuity
When a self proclaimed redneck builds or does something ridiculous

That truck right there has some redneck ingenuity in it!
By Constancia
Afro Ingenuity
The act of repairing something in any way possible, demonstrating the thinking of a black man. See: nigger-rig

A little Afro Ingenuity and a bent coat hangar kept Toby's tailpipe from dragging on the ground.
By Roxine
Gastro-ingenuity
Unique and unusual combinations of ordinary foods that delight and tantalize the olfactory and taste receptors. The term was coined in San Francisco, California.

Ezra's gastro-ingenuity was demonstrated when he combined bacon and calamari to the delight of his tastebuds and olfactory receptors.
By Mariel
Genuine Ingenuity
To create something that can simply be describe as just plain and simply awesome

It takes genuine ingenuity to come up with shit like genuine ingenuity
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Inadvertent Ingenuity
Doing the right thing at the right time, without knowing what you are doing. Dumb luck.

By Cammy