genius

1. (countable) Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art, etc.Examples: "She's a genius; she won a Nobel Prize at fifteen!"; "Marx stand höher, sah weiter, überblickte mehr und rascher als wir andern alle. Marx war ein Genie, wir andern höchstens Talente."Antonyms: idiotcountable

2. (uncountable) Extraordinary mental capacity.Examples: "Excuse, therefore, the shortcomings of genius under the sudorific influence of the summer solstice; for be assured that the vertical sun, however it may dulcify and mature cherries, plums, and other fruitful ‘plumpitudes,’ is by no means favorable to the development of intellectual products."; "In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned."uncountable

3. (uncountable) Inspiration, a mental leap, an extraordinary creative process.Examples: "a work of genius"; "to add a dash of cinnamon amid such umami was pure genius"uncountable

4. (countable, Roman mythology, also figuratively) The tutelary deity or spirit of a place or person.Examples: "and the genius of the place: the growing enthusiasm for codified standards in the Army and Navy"; "We talk of genius still, but with thought how changed! The genius of Augustus was a tutelary demon, to be sworn by and to receive offerings on an altar as a deity."; "An old sinner, in shape of a khansamah, is the genius of the place, and has rarely aught else to tempt the tired traveller with than a “sudden death”—a fowl caught running in the yard, and dished up forthwith; […]"Synonyms: tutelary deity, spirit, liqueur, liquor, apparition, specter, visionRomanalsocountablefiguratively