originality

The amount and the quality of that which we call originality, creative power, or genius, is entirely dependent upon the activity, force, and integrity of the Imagination.

The Elements of Character Mary G. Chandler

Some theorists have too hastily assumed that, as the power of public opinion increases, the force of private character, or what we call originality, is absorbed into and diluted by it.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various

He might laugh at what he called her originality, but he could not afford to jest at the prospect of her giving Clare an account of his life.

Adam Johnstone's Son 1881

For what we call originality seems not so much anything peculiar, much less anything odd, but that quality in a man which touches human nature at most points of its circumference, which reinvigorates the consciousness of our own powers by recalling and confirming our own unvalued sensations and perceptions, gives classic shape to our own amorphous imaginings, and adequate utterance to our own stammering conceptions or emotions.

Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855

That we endure it under the pretense of "originality" is just insulting our intelligence.

Is a grim, dark, nihilistic view of the future in SciFi...groundbreaking? rabid1st 2009

As many scholars have established, "originality" is itself a concept that arises from the "individualism" of the Romantic movement of that century, although not all of the Romantic writers could be measured by it.

Principles of Literary Criticism 2010

An influential teacher, for instance, may go unmentioned in an artist's biography out of fear that unflattering comparisons will be made or that an artist's apparent originality is actually less than it might seem.

Daniel Grant: There's a Lot of Backbiting Among Artists Daniel Grant 2010

There are good things about Bleach, but – at least from what I can tell so far – originality is definitely not one of them.

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Don’t give up your secret identity! 2009

Focusing on originality is strategic in a culture that respects individual genius, but fanworks are always also embedded in repetition.

Archive 2009-04-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

An influential teacher, for instance, may go unmentioned in an artist's biography out of fear that unflattering comparisons will be made or that an artist's apparent originality is actually less than it might seem.

Daniel Grant: There's a Lot of Backbiting Among Artists Daniel Grant 2010