scenius

noun /siːni.əs/

1. The intelligence of a whole operation or group of people; collective creativity.

   countable, uncountable

   Tim Berners-Lee has ascribed his own tech breakthrough to the “scenius”: “Most of the technology involved in the web . . . had been designed already, I just had to put them together.”

Where it comes from

Blend of scene (“subculture”) + genius, sometimes attributed to Brian Eno.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry scenius (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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