Noun cleverness has 3 senses
- inventiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, cleverness - the power of creative imagination
--1 is a kind of creativity, creativeness, creative thinking
--1 has particulars: resource, resourcefulness, imagination
- brightness, cleverness, smartness - intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty
--2 is a kind of intelligence
- ingenuity, ingeniousness, cleverness - the property of being ingenious; "a plot of great ingenuity"; "the cleverness of its design"
--3 is a kind of superiority, high quality
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