noun
- plural of overingenuity; excessive or overly elaborate cleverness, ingenuity, or inventiveness, especially when it is unnecessary or counterproductive
Usage: rare; typically used in formal or literary contexts; often carries a critical connotation suggesting that something is needlessly complex
Examples
- The engineer's overingenuities in the design made the machine difficult to repair.
- Critics argued that the film suffered from the director's overingenuities rather than benefiting from them.
- His overingenuities in solving a simple problem only wasted time and resources.
- The proposal was rejected for its overingenuities; a simpler approach would have been more effective.