originality

a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C14H9Cl5, usually derived from chloral by reaction with chlorobenzene in the presence of fuming sulfuric acid: used as an insecticide and as a scabicide and pediculicide: agricultural use prohibited in the U.S.

the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).

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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

1742, probably after Fr. originalité (see original (adj.)).

Example sentences

His chief originality is, of course, to be sought in his poetry of nature.

Originality is a necessary condition for calling something creative, but it is

not sufficient by itself.

Simply blend a teaspoon of originality into a bucket of the same old thing.

It is the triumph of ideas and insight over style, of originality over reaction.

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cut-and-dried ditchdigger ingenious limited servile

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"What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it stares us in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.—For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers."

-Friedrich Nietzsche