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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

... She had still her nymph-like form, so that when her back was turned she still was not unlike the girl who had jumped, with Anne of Austria, over the moat of the Tuileries in 1563. In all other respects she was the same mad creature who threw over her amours such an air of originality as to make them proverbial for eccentricity ...

— Twenty Years After • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

... a very fair idea of Harry's essay. There was nothing remarkable about it, and no striking originality in the ideas, but it was very creditably expressed for a boy of his years, and did even more credit to his good judgment, since it was an unfolding of the principles by which he meant ...

— Risen from the Ranks - Harry Walton's Success • Horatio Alger, Jr.

... did not confine himself to questions of constitutional reform and internal government. He often spoke on the foreign policy of the Government, and it is in these speeches that he shews most originality. ...

— Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire • James Wycliffe Headlam

... not quote myself with any intention of making a claim to originality in putting forth this view; for I have since discovered that the same conception is virtually contained in the great "Discours sur l'Histoire Universelle" of Bossuet, now more than two ...

— The Evolution of Theology: An Anthropological Study - Essay #8 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" • Thomas Henry Huxley

... Minnie and Aunt Aggie.' 'Lucy, with love from Aggie and Minnie.' And Clarence! What hearts you have got! Well, I always say there never were such thoughtful girls, and you always show such taste and such originality. I long to get at the things." She keeps fingering the large bundle marked with her husband's ...

— The Daughter of the Storage - And Other Things in Prose and Verse • William Dean Howells

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