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jewel
noun. something, someone precious
  • charm
  • find
  • gem
  • genius
  • ideal
  • masterpiece
  • nonesuch
  • nonpareil
  • paragon
  • pearl
  • phenomenon
  • phoenix
  • prize
  • prodigy
  • rarity
  • specialty
  • treasure
  • wonder

judgment
noun. common sense
  • acumen
  • acuteness
  • apprehension
  • astuteness
  • awareness
  • brains
  • capacity
  • comprehension
  • discernment
  • discrimination
  • experience
  • genius
  • grasp
  • incisiveness
  • ingenuity
  • intelligence
  • intuition
  • keenness
  • knowledge
  • mentality
  • penetration
  • perception
  • percipience
  • perspicacity
  • prudence
  • quickness
  • range
  • rationality
  • reach
  • readiness
  • reason
  • reasoning
  • sagacity
  • sanity
  • sapience
  • savvy
  • sense
  • sharpness
  • shrewdness
  • sophistication
  • soundness
  • taste
  • understanding
  • wisdom
  • wit

knack
noun. ability, talent
  • adroitness
  • aptitude
  • aptness
  • bent
  • capacity
  • command
  • dexterity
  • expertise
  • expertism
  • expertness
  • facility
  • faculty
  • flair
  • forte
  • genius
  • gift
  • handiness
  • hang of it
  • head
  • ingenuity
  • know-how
  • mastership
  • nose
  • propensity
  • quickness
  • readiness
  • savvy
  • set
  • skill
  • skillfulness
  • trick
  • turn

magician
noun. person who performs supernatural
  • charmer
  • conjurer
  • diabolist
  • diviner
  • enchanter
  • enchantress
  • exorciser
  • exorcist
  • feats or tricks archimage
  • fortune-teller
  • genie
  • genius
  • illusionist
  • marvel
  • medicine person
  • medium
  • miracle worker
  • necromancer
  • prophet
  • satanist
  • seer
  • shaman
  • siren
  • soothsayer
  • sorcerer
  • spellbinder
  • thaumaturge
  • theurgist
  • trickster
  • virtuoso
  • voodoo
  • warlock
  • witch
  • witch doctor
  • wizard

marvel
noun. wonder
  • curiosity
  • genius
  • miracle
  • one for the books
  • phenomenon
  • portent
  • prodigy
  • sensation
  • something else
  • stunner
  • whiz

master
noun. expert, skilled person, female or male
  • ace
  • adept
  • artist
  • artiste
  • authority
  • buff
  • champion
  • connoisseur
  • conqueror
  • doctor
  • doyen
  • doyenne
  • genius
  • guru
  • maestro
  • maven
  • old hand
  • old pro
  • past master
  • prima donna
  • pro
  • professional
  • proficient
  • pundit
  • real pro
  • sage
  • savant
  • scientist
  • shark
  • victor
  • virtuoso
  • whiz
  • whiz-bang
  • winner
  • wizard

mastery
noun. command, expertise
  • ability
  • acquirement
  • adeptness
  • adroitness
  • attainment
  • capacity
  • cleverness
  • comprehension
  • cunning
  • deftness
  • dexterity
  • expertism
  • expertness
  • familiarity
  • finesse
  • genius
  • grasp
  • grip
  • ken
  • knack
  • know-how
  • knowledge
  • mastership
  • power
  • proficiency
  • prowess
  • skill
  • understanding
  • virtuosity
  • wizardry

mind
noun. intelligence
  • apperception
  • attention
  • brain
  • brainpower
  • brains
  • capacity
  • cognizance
  • conception
  • consciousness
  • creativity
  • faculty
  • function
  • genius
  • head
  • imagination
  • ingenuity
  • instinct
  • intellect
  • intellectual
  • intellectuality
  • intuition
  • judgment
  • lucidity
  • marbles
  • mentality
  • observation
  • perception
  • percipience
  • power
  • psyche
  • ratiocination
  • reason
  • reasoning
  • regard
  • sanity
  • sense
  • soul
  • soundness
  • spirit
  • talent
  • thinker
  • thought
  • understanding
  • wisdom
  • wits

prodigy
noun. person or thing that is extraordinary
  • brain
  • child genius
  • curiosity
  • enormity
  • freak
  • genius
  • intellect
  • marvel
  • mastermind
  • miracle
  • monster
  • natural
  • one in a million
  • phenomenon
  • portent
  • rare bird
  • rarity
  • sensation
  • spectacle
  • stunner
  • talent
  • whiz
  • whiz kid
  • wizard
  • wonder
  • wonder child
  • wunderkind
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Word Origin & History

genius late 14c., from L. genius "guardian deity or spirit which watches over each person from birth; spirit, incarnation, wit, talent," from root of gignere "beget, produce" (see kin), from PIE base *gen- "produce." Meaning "person of natural intelligence or talent" first recorded 1640s.

Example Sentences for genius

This would mean "the genius of Bhubanmohini" if that be taken as the author's name.

The press has noticed the emanations of her genius, and we add our testimony.

But, in the folk-songs, all the qualities of her genius have contributed.

So powerful is genius, when it is invested with the glitter of affluence!

Genius has not hesitated to borrow bravely from history and legend.

Galton estimated the number of men of genius in all history at four hundred.

Bonaparte, after all, was a great general, and a man of genius.

She had developed the rarest of all gifts among womankind, a genius for silence.

In the commonest conversation he showed himself a man of genius.

But it is only for genius to order, distribute and compose, in the other.

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