Meaning of ORIGINALITY
| Pronunciation: | | u`riju'nalitee
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- [n] the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else)
- [n] the ability to think and act independently
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| | Antonyms: | | unoriginality | | |
| | See Also: | | ability, freshness, freshness, heterodoxy, innovativeness, novelty, novelty, power, quality, unconventionality, unorthodoxy | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \O*rig`i*nal"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. originalit['e].]
The quality or state of being original. --Macaulay.
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| | Related Terms: | | authenticity, beatnikism, Bohemianism, brand-newness, callowness, cleverness, contrariety, creativeness, creativity, daring, deviation, dewiness, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, dissent, fecundity, fertile mind, fertility, freshness, fringiness, gloss of novelty, greenness, heresy, heterodoxy, hippiedom, immaturity, inaccordance, incongruity, inconsistency, independence, individuality, ingenuity, innovation, innovativeness, intactness, invention, inventiveness, lateness, maidenhood, mint condition, newbornness, newfangledness, newfangleness, newness, noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonimitation, nonobservance, novelness, novelty, nowness, pregnant imagination, presentness, pristineness, productivity, prolificacy, protest, rawness, recalcitrance, recency, recentness, recusance, recusancy, refractoriness, resourcefulness, revisionism, strangeness, teeming imagination, uncommonness, unconformity, unconventionality, unfamiliarity, uniqueness, unorthodoxy, unusualness, virginity |
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