originariness

English

Etymology

originary +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /əɹɪd͡ʒ.ˈn̩ɛɹinəs/

Noun

originariness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being originary.
   • 1989, Rosalind E. Krauss, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths, MIT Press, pages 160–161:

     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.