originality

o·rig·i·nal·i·ty  (-rj-nl-t)

n. pl. o·rig·i·nal·i·ties

1. The quality of being original.

2. The capacity to act or think independently.

3. Something original.

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originality [əˌrɪdʒɪˈnælɪtɪ]

n pl -ties

1. the quality or condition of being original

2. the ability to create or innovate

3. something original

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Originality 

1. As distinctive as a paper clip —Loren D. Estleman
2. As novel as teaching chickens to drive cars —Richard Ford

   See Also: ABSURDITY

3. Blowing platitudes like bubbles through air —William Styron
4. The human mind can no more produce an original thought than a tree can produce an original fruit —Jerome K. Jerome

   See Also: THOUGHT

5. Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it —Louis Kronenberger
6. Original as a xeroxed letter —Elyse Sommer
7. A platitude like a bad postcard of the Parthenon —Karl Shapiro
8. Unique as the suits worn to a banker’s convention —Elyse Sommer
9. Unlike the rest of the family as wine from water —J. B. Priestly
10. Unoriginal as any rabbit —Robert Frost
11. Wondrous as the butterfly’s birth from the worm —Alderman

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	originality - the ability to think and act independently ability, power - possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done; "danger heightened his powers of discrimination" innovativeness - originality by virtue of introducing new ideas unconventionality - originality by virtue of being unconventional novelty, freshness - originality by virtue of being new and surprising
	2.	originality - the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else) quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare novelty, freshness - originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel heterodoxy, unorthodoxy - the quality of being unorthodox unoriginality - the quality of being unoriginal

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originality

noun novelty, imagination, creativity, innovation, new ideas, individuality, ingenuity, freshness, uniqueness, boldness, inventiveness, cleverness, resourcefulness, break with tradition, newness, unfamiliarity, creative spirit, unorthodoxy, unconventionality, creativeness, innovativeness, imaginativeness the startling originality of his writing
orthodoxy, normality, conformity, regularity, traditionalism, conventionality, staleness, imitativeness

Translations

originality [əˌrɪdʒɪˈnælɪtɪ] N → originalidad f

originality [əˌrɪdʒəˈnæləti] n → originalité f

originality

n → Originalität f

originality [əˌrɪdʒɪˈnælɪtɪ] n → originalità