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GENIUS
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Irregular inflected form: genii
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unusual mental ability
Synonyms:
brilliance; genius
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("genius" is a kind of...):
intelligence (the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "genius"):
coruscation (a sudden or striking display of brilliance)
pyrotechnics ((music) brilliance of display (as in the performance of music))
scintillation (a brilliant display of wit)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A natural talent
Example:
he has a genius for interior decorating
Synonyms:
flair; genius
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("genius" is a kind of...):
endowment; gift; natural endowment; talent (natural abilities or qualities)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Exceptional creative ability
Synonyms:
genius; wizardry
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("genius" is a kind of...):
creative thinking; creativeness; creativity (the ability to create)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
Synonyms:
ace; adept; champion; genius; hotshot; maven; mavin; sensation; star; superstar; virtuoso; whiz; whizz; wiz; wizard
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genius" is a kind of...):
expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "genius"):
track star (a star runner)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
Example:
he's smart but he's no Einstein
Synonyms:
brain; brainiac; Einstein; genius; mastermind
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("genius" is a kind of...):
intellect; intellectual (a person who uses the mind creatively)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "genius"):
prodigy (an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration)
Context examples:
This is something more than genius.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I know very well, how little reputation is to be got by writings which require neither genius nor learning, nor indeed any other talent, except a good memory, or an exact journal.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
His genius and ardour had seemed to foresee and to command his prosperous path.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
She had neither beauty, genius, accomplishment, nor manner.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
It is such a spur to one's genius, such an opening for wit, to have a dislike of that kind.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
"But what are his manners on more intimate acquaintance? What his pursuits, his talents, and genius?"
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Only think what grand things were produced there by our all going with him one hot day in August to drive about the grounds, and see his genius take fire.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Mine is no futility of genius that can't sell gems to the magazines.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
You seem to have a sort of genius for establishing relations with people—seempathy, I suppose, or animal magnetism, or youthful vitality, or something. I am conscious of it myself.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With lips compressed and clouded brow, he strode up and down the oaken floor, the very genius and impersonation of asceticism, while the great bell still thundered and clanged above his head.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
