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- noun The property of lacking
originality ,repetitiveness ,triteness ,banality .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being unoriginal
- noun uncreativeness due to a lack of originality
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Examples
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Seriously what was a quality show in a tirade of unoriginality is turning into fanserv rubbish.
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Perhaps the most suspect of unoriginality is the remake.
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In my mind, unoriginality occurs when one attempts to transfer one story from one medium to another without any thought to changing, or even heightening, the themes or messages of the underlying story.
Only Eight of This Decade’s Best Picture Nominees Are Original | /Film 2009
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And how can you properly villainize "unoriginality" when it's so vague and all-encompassing, as you've described?
Only Eight of This Decade’s Best Picture Nominees Are Original | /Film 2009
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There are occasional, nonintrusive footnotes and more ample notes at the back, though the presence of those is not indicated in the text by interruptive superior numerals; there is also a longish Bibliography (though, as a note warns, not every item in it deals with or is suggestive of "unoriginality"), and a good Index.
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But, most of all, the heights in CGI that the James Cameron event reached and the emotional ties to the Trail of Tears, made its basic unoriginality not matter to me.
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Also ... the ones who talk about Avatar's unoriginality aren't in any way as repetitive as the ones who talk about it's action scenes and special effects (hooray for the Transformers movies then, huh?)
Fox Created 18 Different Versions of Avatar for the U.S., Over 100 Versions Worldwide | /Film 2010
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This of course brings me to the complaint of unoriginality, or the "prequel concept".
Revisiting Star Trek [Part 7 of 7]: The New Trek Reboot 2009
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But, most of all, the heights in CGI that the James Cameron event reached and the emotional ties to the Trail of Tears, made its basic unoriginality not matter to me.
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But, most of all, the heights in CGI that the James Cameron event reached and the emotional ties to the Trail of Tears, made its basic unoriginality not matter to me.
Guest author: Ann Wilkes – Recycling Storylines Well — Fusion Despatches 2010
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