Originality vs Singularity - What's the difference?
originality | singularity |
(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:
(countable) Something original.
the state of being singular, distinct, peculiar, uncommon or unusual
* Addison
* Sir Walter Raleigh
a point where all parallel lines meet
a point where a measured variable reaches unmeasurable or infinite value
(mathematics) the value or range of values of a function for which a derivative does not exist
(physics) a point or region in spacetime in which gravitational forces cause matter to have an infinite density; associated with black holes
A proposed point in the technological future at which artificial intelligences become capable of augmenting and improving themselves, leading to an explosive growth in intelligence.
(obsolete) Anything singular, rare, or curious.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Possession of a particular or exclusive privilege, prerogative, or distinction.
* Hooker
* Bishop Pearson
(obsolete) celibacy
As nouns the difference between originality and singularity
is that originality is the quality of being original or novel while singularity is the state of being singular, distinct, peculiar, uncommon or unusual.originality
English
(wikipedia originality)Noun
- Originality may be the capacity to look at the same facts and see new explanations.
singularity
English
Noun
- I took notice of this little figure for the singularity of the instrument.
- Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn.
- Your gallery Have we passed through, not without much content / In many singularities .
- No bishop of Rome ever took upon him this name of singularity [universal bishop].
- Catholicism must be understood in opposition to the legal singularity of the Jewish nation.
- (Jeremy Taylor)