Genius
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iËniÉ™s
Origin
From Latin genius ("the guardian spirit of a person, spirit, inclination, wit, genius, literally 'inborn nature'"), from gignere ("to beget, produce"), Old Latin genere, the root gen; see genus.
Full definition of genius
Adjective
genius
Noun
- Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 1, In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, …, and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
- Extraordinary mental capacity.
- Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.a work of genius
- (Roman mythology) The guardian spirit of a place or person.
- A way of thinking, optimizing one's capacity for learning and understanding.