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Newness

Newness \New"ness\, n. The quality or state of being new; as, the newness of a system; the newness of a scene; newness of life.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
newness

Old English neownysse; see new + -ness.

Wiktionary
newness

n. The property of being new; novelty

WordNet
newness

n. the opposite of oldness [ant: oldness]

Usage examples of "newness".

Or it could be seen as a study of the ironies of originality, a novel that asserts its own originality the moment its first line copies another, and then evokes the breathless, unprecedented newness of falling in love - in a world already dense with allusion and echo, a decadent endgame Eden.

Lady Rangle could afford the best, but their very newness made them tawdry.

As the car was unwedged, as it was rocked, yanked, pushed, and let go, as different ideas were tried and discarded, as the newness of the machine wore off, Davan saw his plan was lost and he began to despair.

Soon the jars became pristine in their newness, shiny with brown glaze, and the honey was still sticky on their sides.

In the ropes of his gut Judah feels a newness, a constructed nonlife, a giant anthropoid wind come to him, as Ann-Hari releases his golem trap.

Just for a little while give me your strangerhood, your strangeness and your newness.

In order to express them with counters, we need to divide Cakes in THREE different ways, with regard to newness, to niceness, and to wholesomeness.

From these little details it may, perhaps, be understood how a town like Chicago goes on and prospers in spite of all the drawbacks which are incident to newness.

His television stands on the mirrorless dressing table, its newness in stark contrast to the tawdriness of everything else.

Gulta and Bjarni were indeed oblivious to it all, excited as children at Christmastide by the newness and the bustle.

My addles with the newness of this suggestion, but I need to have it spelled out to me what you intend and you think it will achieve your ends.

It would have taken a century, he repeatedly said to himself, and said also to Alice Staverton, it would have taken a longer absence and a more averted mind than those even of which he had been guilty, to pile up the differences, the newnesses, the queernesses, above all the bignesses, for the better or the worse, that at present assaulted his vision wherever he looked.

They had broken from the bonds that were at the heart of the Deathlands, they had entered the forbidden places, deep into the Darks, and they had found… something, something other than their dreary experience in the Deathlands, something that by its very newness spelled hope for a different life, a different future.

The ceiling was remarkably free of ornament where it should be brightly painted, but perhaps that had more to do with the newness of the building and not any cultural change.

Like certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely in their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing-day.