second-handednessn.
The quality or condition of being second-hand or hackneyed; secondhandness.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > want of originality
unoriginality1770
second-handedness1905
derivativeness1927
1905 G. B. Shaw Let. (1972) II. 551 I have striven hard to open English eyes to the emptiness of Shakespeare's philosophy, to the superficiality and second-handedness of his morality.
1920 R. Macaulay Potterism ii. iii. 90 Once you are tied up with a party, you can only avoid second-handedness, taking over views ready made.
1929 A. N. Whitehead Aims Educ. iv. 79 The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
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