noun
Meaning 1
The quality of being original or novel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
originality
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/əˌɹɪd͡ʒɪˈnælɪti/
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noun
Meaning 2
The capacity to think independently or be inventive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
Something original.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
Meaning 4
The original state or condition of a thing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: unoriginality
Broader terms: quality
Narrower terms: freshness, novelty, unorthodoxy, heterodoxy
noun
Meaning 6
the ability to think and act independently
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: ability, power
Narrower terms: innovativeness, unconventionality, novelty, freshness
History
Etymology
From French originalité. By surface analysis, original + -ity.
Across languages
Translations
39 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: orixinalidá — the quality of being original or novel
- Basque: originaltasun — the quality of being original or novel
- Belarusian: арыгіна́льнасць (aryhinálʹnascʹ) — the quality of being original or novel
- Bulgarian: оригиналност (originalnost) — the quality of being original or novel
- Catalan: originalitat — the quality of being original or novel
- Finnish: omaperäisyys — the quality of being original or novel
- Finnish: omintakeisuus — the quality of being original or novel
- Finnish: omaleimaisuus — the quality of being original or novel
- French: originalité — the quality of being original or novel
- Galician: orixinalidade — the quality of being original or novel
- German: Originalität — the quality of being original or novel
- Hebrew: מקוריות (mekoriyút) — the quality of being original or novel
- Hungarian: eredetiség — the quality of being original or novel
- Italian: originalità — the quality of being original or novel
- Latin: orīginālitās — the quality of being original or novel
- Occitan: originalitat — the quality of being original or novel
- Polish: oryginalność — the quality of being original or novel
- Portuguese: originalidade — the quality of being original or novel
- Romanian: originalitate — the quality of being original or novel
- Russian: оригина́льность (originálʹnostʹ) — the quality of being original or novel
- Russian: нова́торство (novátorstvo) — the quality of being original or novel
- Spanish: originalidad — the quality of being original or novel
- Tagalog: orihinalidad — the quality of being original or novel
- Turkish: orijinalite — the quality of being original or novel
- Ukrainian: оригіна́льність (oryhinálʹnistʹ) — the quality of being original or novel
- Bulgarian: оригиналност (originalnost) — the capacity to think independently or be inventive
- German: Originalität — the capacity to think independently or be inventive
- Hebrew: מקוריות (mekoriyút) — the capacity to think independently or be inventive
- Hebrew: חדשנות (khadshanút) — the capacity to think independently or be inventive
- Portuguese: originalidade — the capacity to think independently or be inventive
- Romanian: originalitate — the capacity to think independently or be inventive
- Tagalog: orihinalidad — the capacity to think independently or be inventive
- Turkish: özgünlük — the capacity to think independently or be inventive
- Turkish: orijinalite — the capacity to think independently or be inventive
- Asturian: orixinalidá — something original
- Catalan: originalitat — something original
- German: Originalität — something original
- Portuguese: originalidade — something original
- Spanish: originalidad — something original
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