'originality' definitions:
Definition of 'originality'
(from WordNet)
noun
The ability to think and act independently
noun
The quality of being new and original (not derived from something else) [ant: unoriginality]
Synonyms of 'originality'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- authenticity,
- beatnikism,
- Bohemianism,
- 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