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genius
/ˈd͡ʒiː.ni.əs/ noun
Latin root: genius Wiktionary
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Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art, etc.
She's a genius; she won a Nobel Prize at fifteen!
- Extraordinary mental capacity.
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Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.
a work of genius
adjective
Origin
From Latin genius (“inborn nature; a tutelary deity of a person or place; wit, brilliance”), from gignō (“to beget, produce”), Old Latin genō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵenh₁-. Doublet of genio. See also genus and genie.
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