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Synonyms and Antonyms of originality

1 the quality or appeal of being new
  • the originality of the war memorial sparked a heated controversy, as most people had been expecting something more traditional
Synonyms of originality

freshness, newness, novelty
Words Related to originality

hipness, trendiness

bizarreness, strangeness, unfamiliarity, unusualness

progressiveness

currentness, recentness, up-to-dateness

departure, divergence, innovation, offshoot, shoot
Near Antonyms of originality

banality, commonness, familiarity

outdatedness, staleness
2 the skill and imagination to create new things
  • a poet of great originality, she brought a whole new range of subject matter and imagery to poetry
Synonyms of originality

cleverness, creativeness, creativity, imagination, imaginativeness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, innovativeness, invention, inventiveness
Words Related to originality

fecundity, fertility, fruitfulness, productiveness, productivity, prolificacy, prolificity, prolificness

capableness, resourcefulness

genius, giftedness, talent

fire, inspiration, muse
Near Antonyms of originality

dryness, dullness (also dulness)
3 the ability to form mental images of things that either are not physically present or have never been conceived or created by others
  • a graphic novel that shows a lot of originality on the part of its creator
Synonyms of originality

contrivance, creativity, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), ideation, imagination, imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness
Words Related to originality

brainstorm, brainstorming, inspiration

fecundity, fertility

ingenuity, resourcefulness

versatility

chimera, daydream, delusion, dream, figment, hallucination, illusion, mind's eye, mirage, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream

envisaging, visualization
Near Antonyms of originality

literality, literalness

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