firstness

noun

1. (uncountable)The quality of being first; originality; priority

   “But it was not swimming and boating again that pleased him. The joy of it was its firstness: never before had a boat rested on the waters of this world; never before had these children seen a human being swim.”

   “Firstness (in-itselfness, originality) helps to explain logico-cognitive processes and therefore, at once, the formation of signs.”