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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

We do not know which genius first discovered the use of pottery but he deserves a statue.

Much, nay most, of this was undoubtedly owing to the genius of the songstress.

I do not say she reasoned thus, but her genius reasoned thus for her.

I am willing to confess that my poor black Dirk was a bit of a genius.

"Genius is certainly modest," he said, with a laugh that was not nice to hear.

The Professor had genius, but lacked the great social virtue of resignation.

He affected singularity, in order to establish his claims to genius.

One could not, indeed, have supposed that a man of genius could make a man of business.

His genius was confessed by all; but it was a genius that in no way promoted the interests of his country.

She had a gift denied to most Englishwomen—the genius for wearing clothes.

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