Meanings
nounoriginariness (uncountable)
- uncountableThe quality of being originary.
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This origin is what the genius of the grid is supposed to manifest to us as viewers: an indisputable zero-ground beyond which there is no further model, or referent, or text. Except that this experience of originariness, felt by generations of artists, critics, and viewers is itself false, a fiction.
1989, Rosalind E. Krauss, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, MIT Press, pages 160–161
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originariness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/originariness
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“originariness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/originariness. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “originariness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/originariness.
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