Novelty

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  • noun. The quality of being novel; newness.
  • noun. Something new and unusual; an innovation.
  • noun. A small mass-produced article, such as a toy or trinket.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • The quality of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction.
  • Unaccustomedness; strangeness; novel or unusual character or appearance: as, the novelty of one's surroundings.
  • Something new or strange; a novel thing: as, to hunt after novelties.
  • Especially A new article of trade; an article of novel design or new use.
  • An innovation.
  • In patent law, the quality of being sub-stantially different from any previous invention.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction.
  • noun. Something novel; a new or strange thing.
  • noun. A small mass-produced article of little value; a knickknack.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state of being new or novel; newness.
  • noun. A new product; an innovation.
  • noun. A small mass-produced trinket.
  • noun. In novelty theory, newness, density of complexification, and dynamic change as opposed to static habituation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel
  • noun. cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
  • noun. a small inexpensive mass-produced article
  • noun. originality by virtue of being new and surprising
  • Word Usage
    "From my testimony then about myself, if you believe it, judge of others also who are Catholics: we do not find the difficulties which you do in the doctrines which we hold; we have no intellectual difficulty in that doctrine in particular, which you call a novelty of this day."
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