Genius
['dʒiːnɪəs] or ['dʒinjəs]
Definition
(noun.) exceptional creative ability.
(noun.) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality; 'Mozart was a child genius'; 'he's smart but he's no Einstein'.
Editor: Olivia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A good or evil spirit, or demon, supposed by the ancients to preside over a man's destiny in life; a tutelary deity; a supernatural being; a spirit, good or bad. Cf. Jinnee.
(n.) The peculiar structure of mind with whoch each individual is endowed by nature; that disposition or aptitude of mind which is peculiar to each man, and which qualifies him for certain kinds of action or special success in any pursuit; special taste, inclination, or disposition; as, a genius for history, for poetry, or painting.
(n.) Peculiar character; animating spirit, as of a nation, a religion, a language.
(n.) Distinguished mental superiority; uncommon intellectual power; especially, superior power of invention or origination of any kind, or of forming new combinations; as, a man of genius.
(n.) A man endowed with uncommon vigor of mind; a man of superior intellectual faculties; as, Shakespeare was a rare genius.
Typist: Sam
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Bent, turn, aptitude, aptness, capacity, faculty, endowment, talent, gift.[2]. Invention, ingenuity, intellect, sagacity, brains, parts, wit, mother-wit, inspiration, creative power, power of invention.[3]. Adept, proficient, master, master-hand, man of genius.[4]. Nature, character, disposition, peculiar constitution, characteristic quality.[5]. Spirit, demon, tutelary deity.
Typist: Rudy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Talent, cleverness, inventiveness, creativeness, intellect, skill, giftedness,ideality, endowment, nature, gift, character, faculty
ANT:Stolidity, stupidity, inanity, imbecility
Edited by Cary
Definition
n. the special inborn faculty of any individual: special taste or disposition qualifying for a particular employment: a man having such power of mind: a good or evil spirit supposed by the ancients to preside over every person place and thing and esp. to preside over a man's destiny from his birth: prevailing spirit or tendency: type or generic exemplification—(obs.) Gēn′io:—pl. Geniuses (jēn′yus-ez).—Genius loci (L.) the presiding divinity of a place:—pl. Genii (jē′ni-ī).
Edited by Anselm
Examples
- A genius usually becomes the luminous center of a nation's crisis,--men see better by the light of him. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It will decide my career, for if I have any genius, I shall find it out in Rome, and will do something to prove it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Besides, is it not a shame, that the genius of Adrian should fade from the earth like a flower in an untrod mountain-path, fruitless? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- How Tom, genius-like, struck out new paths, and, relinquishing the old names of the letters, called U _bell_ and P _bottle_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- What could we not make of the world if we employed its genius! Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He was a great genius, and a noble character, yet hardly capable of feeling or understanding anything external to his own theology. Plato. The Republic.
- Original genius was peculiarly his attribute. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Yet the Greek genius has produced a great sea drama in the 'Odyssey. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The genius of that porter was something wonderful. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His genius as an inventor is revealed in many details of the great concentrating plant. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- When he turned his head quickly his hair seemed to shake out light, and some persons thought they saw decided genius in this coruscation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The pint-pots were great strokes of genius: but the milk-can was a perfect masterpiece. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The novelis t's tolerance of Davy's enthusiasm soon passed into a clear recognition of his commanding genius. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I never admired the character of the first Napoleon; but I recognize his great genius. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As soundless, as unresisting, as if some propitious genius had waited on a sesame-charm, in the vestibule within. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He had certainly not seen any military geniuses in this war. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- As a witty Frenchman remarked, many geniuses become their own disciples. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There were hosts of these geniuses, and any reasonable person would have thought it honour enough to meet them. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Edited by Clifford