Resourcefulness
[rɪ'sɔrsfəlnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being able to cope with a difficult situation; 'a man of great resourcefulness'.
Checker: Wilbur--From WordNet
Examples
- It is at such times as these that his unfailing patience and tremendous resourcefulness are in evidence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Edison's inexhaustible resourcefulness and fertility of ideas have contributed largely to his great success, and have ever been a cause of amazement to those around him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Thus we get at a new event indirectly instead of immediately--by invention, ingenuity, resourcefulness. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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