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According to the American Heritage Dictionary, if you use "genius" in any other meaning, including "an extremely intelligent human being", the correct plural form is "geniuses". Other dictionaries may list more meanings of the word, but the point remains that e.g. three persons with extraordinary mental capacity are geniuses, with "genii ...
On the surface, one might think that ingenious is somehow based on the word genius. Interestingly, this is not true. The word ingenious does not actually have the in-prefix for negation. Instead, it comes originally from the Latin ingeniōsus, which means "intellectual, talented, ingenious". At times in history it was also spelled "engenious".
Genius is the correct spelling that comes directly from Latin: word-forming element making adjectives from nouns, meaning "having, full of, having to do with, doing, inclined to," from Old French -ous, -eux, from Latin -osus. Genius (n.):
President Trump chose the word "stable" to modify genius simply to refute the common headline that he is "unstable". Meaning roughly, whatever the media is trying to say he is - he's saying he isn't. TL;DR "stable genius" is a historic term which means a genius without mental disabilities.
5. The simple answer is, yes. This usage of 'genius' as an adjective is relatively new and would still be considered by many (including me) as slang. In that vein, the following would also be acceptable: my genius girlfriend. Your plan is genius!
Delicate Genius. 1) a highly touted professional (such as a doctor or lawyer) who would not think of talking business outside of business hours. 2) a doctor who would charge a patient for a visit if they did not show up (and did not call to cancel), yet would not think twice about going skiing on a day that that doctor had a full schedule of ...
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@Clare - Robertson cannot be given the entire credit for the proverb, simply because he modified something that was already in existence, namely, the proverb ‘Great minds jump’ (where ‘jump’ is not to be understood in the sense of ‘push oneself off a surface, but in its now-obsolete form, meaning ‘completely agree’).
What is the word for someone trying to seem/be deep and intelligent, but really they are shallow, and not at all being insightful. Pedant is about rules, so that is disqualified, the closest I could
Actually, the saying is originally attributed to Elbert Hubbard: "A genius is a man who takes the lemons that Fate hands him and starts a lemonade stand with them." (Reader's Digest, October 1927) ref. However, the saying is usually credited to Dale Carnegie, who published it as: "When fate hands us a lemon let's try to make a lemonade."