Creativity vs. Originality

Creativity vs. Originality — Is There a Difference?

Difference Between Creativity and Originality

Creativityadjective

Having the ability or power to create

Human beings are creative animals.

Originalitynoun

The quality of being original.

Creativityadjective

Productive; creating.

Originalitynoun

The capacity to act or think independently.

Creativityadjective

Characterized by originality and expressiveness; imaginative

creative writing.

Originalitynoun

Something original.

Creativitynoun

One who displays productive originality

the creatives in the advertising department.

Originalitynoun

(uncountable) The quality of being original or novel.

Creativitynoun

The ability to use imagination to produce a novel idea or product that is useful to society.

His creativity is unsurpassed by his fellow students in the art class.

Originalitynoun

(uncountable) The capacity to think independently or be inventive.

Creativitynoun

the ability to create

Originalitynoun

(countable) Something original.

Originalitynoun

the ability to think and act independently

Originalitynoun

the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else)