Novelty meaning

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Something new and unusual; an innovation.
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The quality of being novel; newness; freshness.
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The quality of being novel; newness.
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A small, often cheap, cleverly made article, usually for play or adornment.
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A small mass-produced article, such as a toy or trinket.
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Something new, fresh, or unusual; change; innovation.
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An element required to obtain a patent. See new and useful.
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The state of being new or novel; newness.
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A new product; an innovation.
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Novelty is the state or quality of being new, exciting, unusual or unique.

A brand new toy given to a child is an example of a novelty.

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Characterized by an innovation or, often, specif., by humorous or faddish gimmickry.

A singer with a string of hit novelty recordings.

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In novelty theory, newness, density of complexification, and dynamic change as opposed to static habituation.
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Origin of novelty

  • Old French novelté (Modern French nouveauté), from the adjective novel, ultimately from Latin novellus.
    From Wiktionary

Novelty Sentence Examples

  • The novelty of the opinion is also alluded to.

  • To be called beautiful was a novelty in his experience.

  • Its potters took fiamb glazes for models, and their pieces possessed an air of novelty that attracted connoisseurs.

  • One novelty, however, of the first importance is due to a Vienna physician of the period, Leopold Auenbrugger (1722-1809), the inventor of the method of recognizing diseases of the chest by percussion.

  • On seeing these peasants, who were evidently still amused by the novelty of their position as soldiers, Pierre once more thought of the wounded men at Mozhaysk and understood what the soldier had meant when he said: "They want the whole nation to fall on them."

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