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/ərˌɪdʒənˈælɪti/ Listen

noun

Originality n.

The quality or state of being original.

Ability to create new and original ideas, works of art, theories, etc.; ability to express oneself in an original manner; creativity; of people.

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Etymology of 'Originality'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Originality" Quotes from Famous Books

... and of his government were without consistency or cleverness, and the financial management of his chancellor of the exchequer as clumsy in detail, and what might be called manipulation, as destitute of invention, originality, ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

... unlike Arkwright's frame or Paul's, and preceded that of the former by some years, that its claim to originality can not be questioned. How the inventor came to produce his machine can not be stated, but it is reported that on one occasion he saw a single thread spinning wheel which had been accidentally knocked over, lying with the wheel and spindle ...

— The Story of the Cotton Plant • Frederick Wilkinson

... pages contain the unfinished Sketch of a Theory of Life by S. T. Coleridge. Everything that fell from the pen of that extraordinary man bore latent, as well as more obvious indications of genius, and of its inseparable concomitant—originality. To this general remark the present Essay is far from forming an exception. No one can peruse it, without admiring the author's comprehensive research and profound meditation; but at the same time, partly from the exuberance of ...

— Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... lighting a cigarette, "perhaps not better than the Danae in one sense—it hasn't as much feeling, but has more originality. Miss Berber is such an unusual type—she's quite ...

— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

... quarrel about a sheep, and their not infrequent personal magnetism. They are very abstemious, their morals are pure, they have certain mental qualities, as yet undeveloped, and they are thrifty. But "they are so devoid of both originality and unity," says Sir Charles Eliot,[81] that acutest of observers, "that it is vain to seek for anything in politics, art, religion, literature or customs to which the name Albanian can be properly applied as denoting something common ...

— The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 • Henry Baerlein

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