scenius
noun/siːni.əs/
Etymology Blend of scene (“subculture”) + genius, sometimes attributed to Brian Eno.
1
The intelligence of a whole operation or group of people; collective creativity.
- 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.”2025 June 28, Lucasta Miller, “The cleverness conundrum”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9: