English noun: originality | |||
1. | originality (cognition) the ability to think and act independently | ||
Broader (hypernym) | ability, power | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | freshness, innovativeness, novelty, unconventionality | ||
2. | originality (attribute) the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else) | ||
Broader (hypernym) | quality | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | freshness, heterodoxy, novelty, unorthodoxy | ||
Attribute | original, unoriginal | ||
Antonyms | unoriginality | ||