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originality|ɒrɪdʒɪˈnælɪtɪ|
[ad. F. originalité (1699 in Hatz.-Darm.), f. original: see -ity.]
The quality or fact of being original.
1. The fact or attribute of being primary or first-hand; authenticity, genuineness.
1742H. Walpole Let. 14 July (1903) I. 256 It is one of the most engaging pictures I ever saw. I have no qualms about its originality. 1776H. Swinburne Trav. Spain xliii. 397 One of the most valuable pictures in the world. I do not know how Amiconi came to doubt of its originality. 1881Westcott & Hort Grk. N.T. II. 9 An unsafe guide in the discrimination of relative originality of text.
2. a. The quality of being independent of and different from anything that has appeared before; novelty or freshness of style or character.
1787Sir J. Hawkins Life Johnson 383 His [Richardson's] sentiments were his own; and..he was so sensible..of the originality and importance of many of them, that he would ever be talking of his writings. 1861M. Pattison Ess. (1889) I. 31 These essays have a character of originality beyond their companions. 1882Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1204/1 Origen..urges the originality of the person of Christ.
b. with pl. An original trait, act, remark, etc.
1854Emerson Lett. & Soc. Aims, Quot. & Orig. Wks. (Bohn) III. 213 Whoso knows Plutarch, Lucian, Rabelais, Montaigne..will have a key to many supposed originalities. 1855W. H. Mill Applic. Panth. Princ. (1861) 96 Our author's sagacity has effectually removed all such apparent originalities here.
3. As an attribute of persons: Exhibition of original thought or action; the character of independently exercising one's own faculties; the power of originating new or fresh ideas or methods.
1742T. Gray Let. 24 May (1935) I. 206 My Lady of Queensbury is come out against my Lady of Marlborough; & she has her Spirit too, & her Originality, but more of the Woman, I think, than t'other; as to the Facts it don't signify two pence, who's in the right. 1787Sir. J. Hawkins Life Johnson 269 Of singularity it may be observed, that, in general, it is originality; and therefore not a defect. 1822Hazlitt Table-t. I. v. 103 Originality is the seeing nature differently from others, and yet as it is in itself. 1839Hallam Hist. Lit. III. vi. 617 Shirley has no originality, no force in conceiving or delineating character. 1880A. H. Huth Buckle I. iv. 218 Originality as understood by the vulgar is independence of the labours of others. Mod. A preacher of great originality. |