genius.
Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art, etc.
Meaning & usage
Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art, etc.
She's a genius; she won a Nobel Prize at fifteen!
Extraordinary mental capacity.
Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
a work of genius
to add a dash of cinnamon amid such umami was pure genius
The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.
and the genius of the place: the growing enthusiasm for codified standards in the Army and Navy
Where this word comes from
From Latin genius (“inborn nature; a tutelary deity of a person or place; wit, brilliance”), from gignō (“to beget, produce”), Old Latin genō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of genio. See also genus and genie.
Ingenious, brilliant, very clever, or original.
What a genius idea!
Where this word comes from
From Latin genius (“inborn nature; a tutelary deity of a person or place; wit, brilliance”), from gignō (“to beget, produce”), Old Latin genō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of genio. See also genus and genie.
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