Originality does not mean thinking something that was never thought before; it means putting old ideas together in new ways.
The base of the pyramid supports all the structure above it, similarly some unique idea is required to support other ideas. Single definition cannot encompass all the meanings of originality. In a nutshell, it can be amalgam of old ideas or it can be something that is never thought and made by anyone. The definition given in the statement misconstrue the deep meaning of originality. I will provide some examples to advocate my definition of originality and will shed more light on this topic in the passage below.
In my opinion, originality also means unwrapping some mystery as well as coming up with unique thoughts. Let me embellish this point. Everyone knows about satellites and how they are revolutionizing the technological world, society, and humankind around us. Rocket propulsion is the main part of satellite launching procedure and is not merely an amalgam of some ideas put together in some fashionable form. Additionally, it was something new and innovative. Therefore, It can be said that coming up with new stuff also constitutes as an originality.
Moreover, we can also see example of Facebook and other social networks. These correctly fit into the definition of originality mentioned in the statement as they just came with the idea of social networks differently. There was existing idea of social network that was developed by AOL that helped in development of these new websites. Hence, it is irrefutable that novel ideas are required for development of other ideas. So, it can be stated that originality includes developing new ideas.
In addition to the above mentioned examples, there are other places where humankind came up with new things by not just putting some stuff together in a cutting edge way. These were real, path-breaking things. Everyone knows about internet, we use it daily more than anything else. Internet in its raw form was invented by DARPA as ARPANET for military purpose and everyone is using a modified version of that invention. As we can see again, present state of internet is derived from old idea came up by DARPA. DARPA's idea is the base and was entirely novel and is a true original stuff.
It is apparent by now that originality can be coming up with something by putting old ideas differently or by not using any other idea, instead coming up with new groundbreaking things. I disagree with the definition of Originality mentioned in the statement give in the question.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, if, moreover, similarly, so, therefore, well, in addition, as well as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2040.0 2235.4752809 91% => OK
No of words: 406.0 442.535393258 92% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02463054187 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48881294772 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88785094472 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 215.323595506 92% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490147783251 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 686.7 704.065955056 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.240975608 60.3974514979 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.0 118.986275619 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9166666667 23.4991977007 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.04166666667 5.21951772744 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 16.0 4.83258426966 331% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.262578087084 0.243740707755 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0715605068848 0.0831039109588 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0583117457973 0.0758088955206 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14858516601 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0231088418289 0.0667264976115 35% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 14.1392134831 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.54 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 100.480337079 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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