originality

originality
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(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. creativity, creativeness, inventiveness, innovation, invention, ingenuity, ingeniousness, conception, realization, authenticity, novelty, freshness, nonconformity, newness, modernity, individuality, brilliance, intellectual independence, a creative spirit, a creative mind; see also imagination 1 .
Ant. imitation*, Dependency, imitativeness.
II
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
ingenuity, inventiveness, vision, creativity, freshness, creative spark, imagination, novelty, newness, ingeniousness, genius, *blowing fresh wind through a stale art. ''Simply a fresh pair of eyes.''—Thomas W. Higginson.
ANT.: imitation, plagiarism, orthodoxy, unoriginality
III
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The quality of being novel: freshness, inno-vativeness, newfangledness, newness, novelty. See NEW. 2. The power or ability to invent: creativeness, creativity, ingeniousness, ingenuity, invention, inventiveness. See ABILITY, MAKE.

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