A Topical Dictionary: Search for originality

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English

Noun

the quality of being original or novel
the capacity to think independently or be inventive
something original

Translations

Finnish: omaperäisyys, omintakeisuus, omaleimaisuus
German: Originalität

German: Originalität

German: Originalität

io:originality hu:originality ta:originality te:originality vi:originality zh:originality

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Originality \O*rig`i*nal"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. originalit['e].]
1. The quality or state of being original. --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster]

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

WordNet originality
n 1: the ability to think and act independently
2: the quality of being new and original (not derived from
something else) [ant: unoriginality]

Moby Dictionary
Bohemianism , authenticity , beatnikism , 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