"It's genius!" There are complaints about the overuse of this expression. A description says that it is just like "It's ingenious"
Why would the two be the same? Dictionary.com says this: "Genius refers to a high level of intelligence, while ingenious refers to being clever or inventive. Another key difference is that genius is a noun, while ingenious is an adjective. One source of confusion is the prefix in-, which often negates the word it precedes. For example, the word incapable means not capable."
On to "It's genius." Maybe Little Women with the subtitle "Conceit spoils the finest genius." started the trend:
"It's genius simmering, perhaps". Little WomenBy Louisa May Alcott
This is an often-repeated quote. And the novel has many occurrences of the word genius. I can't find out how many for the word genius. The novel word count is 195,624 (verified) vs Great Expectations at 187,596. Compare these two to Marcel Proust's 1.5 million words in In Search of Lost Time.
I guess it is inevitable that the word continues in the reviews - the author and book are described over and over as genius.
I arrive at the Oxford English Dictionary and it shows me the quotes where the word genius is used in classical works. It starts with genius as a pagan god. It continues and continues with the variations of definitions This is fascinating . Here is the OECD link.
I don't hear the expression It's Genius very often. Will it start to appear?
Isn't this a strange water reflection? It is a white sculpture at the Minneapolis Botanic Garden a few years ago.
