originality
noun
the quality or state of being original.
unoriginality
-
a word derived from
originality.
Example Sentences
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"It is a movie marooned in a desert of unoriginality - and the desert doesn't bloom."
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2022
Having said this, the specious sugary unoriginality of Mary Poppins Returns could well beguile the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which presents the awards.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 4, 2019
At the same time, I can imagine Rooney—who recalls having “nursed intense romantic obsessions for droll counterfactuals”—noting the unoriginality of invoking her collegiate debating record as evidence of her verbal precocity.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2018
“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” gets away with its unoriginality for the most part, but this franchise’s desperation is starting to show.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 5, 2018
Half-pagan, half-divine, Denby, the young cover artist, badly smitten, once put it with striking unoriginality.
From Winner Take All by Larry Evans
