I woke up this morning with "disingenous" in my head
- and of course immediately started thinking about its positive connotation. Although definitions and examples are readily available for both, it struck me as odd how much more "in use" disingenuous is than ingenuous, and that the definition of disingenuous is the negative of the near obsolete meaning of ingenuous. Ingenuous, of course, can still be found, but it's use is relatively rare compared to the negative. It also struck me as odd that I could find no mention of "genuous". The source of the whole family appears to be latin "ingenuus" but I find no mention of "genuus" and I sort of thought that the latin "in-" was a prefix. maybe not
Just wondered if either of the words might rate discussion as a good word.
I should go back to sleep now....
