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Unoriginality

noun
1.
Uncreativeness due to a lack of originality.
2.
The quality of being unoriginal.





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"Unoriginality" Quotes from Famous Books



... his remote ancestors. In such a manner, without in any great degree altering the matter of Lo Kuan's works, all the scenes and persons introduced were transferred to much earlier dynasties than those affected by the incomparable writer himself, the final effect being to give an air of extreme unoriginality to his really undoubtedly ...
— The Wallet of Kai Lung • Ernest Bramah
... more a failing than a crime. Sometimes it may lead to actions which do real injury to another, but injury is rarely intended. It is stupidity more than anything else. But there is a point at which unoriginality may become a sin. Every boy has in him the power to say "Yes" or "No," and he has also the conscience in him which tells him when he ought to say the one or the other. Now, when every one is saying "Yes" to a thing about which your conscience demands that you shall say "No," it becomes your positive ...
— Parkhurst Boys - And Other Stories of School Life • Talbot Baines Reed
... diagrams. The Lark was always too high in the blue for the many; but for those who might mount with him or to him—for those the magazinelet was published. Those enjoyed it; and now they regret it—for The Lark is no more. It was so original that its death is its only unoriginality." ...
— The Purple Cow! • Gelett Burgess


Words linked to "Unoriginality" :   unoriginal, uncreativeness, triteness, conventionality, quality, staleness, orthodoxy, originality


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