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Originality vs Firstness - What's the difference?

originality | firstness |

As nouns the difference between originality and firstness

is that originality is (uncountable) the quality of being original or novel while firstness is the quality of being first; originality; priority.

originality

English

(wikipedia originality)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality of being original or novel.
  • (uncountable) The capacity to think independently or be inventive.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 132:
    • Originality may be the capacity to look at the same facts and see new explanations.
  • (countable) Something original.

    • firstness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being first; originality; priority
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1983 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Orson Scott Card , title=The Worthington Chronicle , chapter= , url= , genre= , publisher=Ace , isbn=9780441918102 , page= , passage=But it was not swimming and boating again that pleased him. The joy of it was its firstness : never before had a boat rested on the waters of this world; never before had these children seen a human being swim. }}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2012 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Susan Petrilli , title=Expression and Interpretation in Language , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Transaction Publishers , isbn=9781412842631 , page=140 , passage=Firstness (in-itselfness, originality) helps to explain logico-cognitive processes and therefore, at once, the formation of signs. }}