Cunningness
Cunningness noun - Skill in achieving one's ends through indirect, subtle, or underhanded means.
Usage example: it took a certain amount of cunningness on the photographer's part to obtain such revealing portraits of his rich and famous subjects
Ingenuity and cunningness are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ingenuity" instead a noun "Cunningness".
Ingenuity
Ingenuity noun - The skill and imagination to create new things.
Cunningness and ingenuity are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cunningness" instead a noun "Ingenuity".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- facility and cunningness
- facility and ingenuity
- subtlety and cunningness
- subtlety and ingenuity
- finesse and cunningness
- finesse and ingenuity
- dexterity and cunningness
- dexterity and ingenuity
- adroitness and cunningness
- adroitness and ingenuity
- artifice and cunningness
- artifice and ingenuity
- cunning and cunningness
- cunning and ingenuity
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Ingenuity and Cunningness. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cunningness/ingenuity
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