Originality is the quality of being genuinely new. Real originality, a lack of originality, prize originality.
It is prized in art and in research and is harder to establish than to claim, since almost everything has a precursor once somebody looks. In academic work, originality is a formal requirement for a doctorate and is defined narrowly — a small genuinely new contribution rather than a revolution. Note original; and that the Latin means belonging to the beginning.
1nounoriginalityThe quality of being genuinely new.
“The judges praised the originality of her design; they had never seen anything like it.”
originality is a quality of newness.
French originalité comes from original, from Latin origo, a beginning, from oriri, to rise. Orient, origin and abort come from the same rising.
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From French originalité. by surface analysis, original + -ity.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA