in·ge·nu·i·ty 
(ĭn′jə-nĭ-tē, -ny-)
(ĭn′jə-nĭ-tē, -ny-)n. pl. in·ge·nu·i·ties
1. Inventive skill or imagination; cleverness.
2. An ingenious or imaginative contrivance.
3. Obsolete Ingenuousness.
[Latin ingenuitās, frankness (influenced by INGENIOUS), from ingenuus, ingenuous; see INGENUOUS.]