originality

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Originality is a quality attributed to ideas and actions that appear unique, inventive, or unusual.

From Slate • Jun. 24, 2023

Originality was on vacation when this picture was made.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2022

Originality is overrated, except by people who have it.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2019

Originality is often a stumbling point, even in a genre that is particularly forgiving to both cliches and the derivative.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2018

Originality in expression does not depend on invention of new words; nor originality in poetry on invention of new measures; nor, in painting, on invention of new colors, or new modes of using them.

From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by Ruskin, John