genius
IPA: dʒˈinjʌs
noun
- (countable) Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.
- (uncountable) Extraordinary mental capacity.
- (uncountable) Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
- (countable, Roman mythology, also figuratively) The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.
adjective
- (informal) Ingenious, brilliant, very clever, or original.
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Examples of "genius" in Sentences
- The term genius is bandied around far too much these days e.g.
- "Oh, certainly, but they were persons of great genius, and _genius_ is the highest patent of nobility.
- She was hoping the word genius would mean something about wanting to know, being hungry to know things, wanting to shine brighter than anyone.
- Concerning the sonata Mr. Apthorp wrote: "One feels genius in it throughout -- and we are perfectly aware that _genius_ is not a term to be used lightly.
- Much laborious discussion has been wasted in defining genius, particularly by the countrymen of Schiller, some of whom have narrowed the conditions of the term so far, as to find but three _men of genius_ since the world was created: Homer, Shakspeare, and Goethe!
- Roman conception (whencesoever emanating) of the natal genius, as the secret and central representative of what is most characteristic and individual in the nature of every human being, are derived alike the notion of the _genial_ and our modern notion of _genius_ as contradistinguished from _talent_.
- But when these theorists had discovered the curious fact, that we have owed to _accident_ several men of genius, and when they laid open some sources which influenced genius in its progress, they did not go one step further, they did not inquire whether such sources and such accidents had ever supplied the _want of genius_ in the individual.
- On me, a mere prosperous tradesman, and busy politician and man of the world, devolves the delicate and responsible task of being the first to write the life of the greatest literary genius this century has produced, _and of revealing the strange secret of that genius_, which has lighted up the darkness of these latter times as with a pillar of fire by night.
- Shakespeare's genius would manifest itself in the superior effect with which he used knowledge acquired in this manner; but his _genius_ would not have led him to choose the dry and affected phraseology of the law as the vehicle of his flowing thought, and to use it so much oftener than any other of the numerous dramatists of his time, to all of whom the courts were as open as to him.
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