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novelty

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Word definitions for novelty in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Novelty (derived from Latin word novus for "new") is the quality of being new, or following from that, of being striking, original or unusual. Novelty may be the shared experience of a new cultural phenomenon or the subjective perception of an individual. ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Novelty \Nov"el*ty\, n.; pl. Novelties . [OF. novelt['e], F. nouveaut['e], L. novellitas.] The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction. Novelty is the great parent of pleasure. --South. Something ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel [syn: freshness ] originality by virtue of being new and surprising [syn: freshness ] a small inexpensive mass-produced article [syn: knickknack ] cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing [syn: bangle ...

Usage examples of novelty.

I was acquainted with my subject, and would compose a sermon which would take everyone by surprise on account of its novelty.

Fortunately there is little changed here: my old Albergo, -- ruinous with earthquake -- is down and done with -- but few novelties are observable -- except the regrettable one that the silk industry has been transported elsewhere -- to Cornuda and other places nearer the main railway.

An Arend with a sense of humor is a novelty, after allsort of like a talking dog.

Finally, guardhouses and bakehouses, already falling to ruins like the mole, and an establishment for condensing water, still kept in working order, are the principal and costly novelties of the southern shore.

But Bozo refused to yield to circumstance, or to permit the novelty of this adventure to faze him.

I feel more fully its antediluvian antiquity, its centuries of mummification, which will soon degenerate into hopeless and grotesque buffoonery, as it comes into contact with Western novelties.

Everybody was interested in this novelty, but it was a matter of indifference to me as I did not understand the language, and I told the king as much.

A Messiah governed from the core of his soul by a perfectly malevolent dybbuk, that would be a fascinating novelty.

I calmed myself by saying that this strong impression was due to novelty, and by hoping that I should soon be disenchanted.

On the contrary, were the generous friend or disinterested patriot to stand alone in the practice of beneficence, this would rather inhance his value in our eyes, and join the praise of rarity and novelty to his other more exalted merits.

If we allow the wave of novelty to propel us toward the creativity that is inimicable to the human condition.

On her white shirtwaist was a pleated jabot of cheap lace, caught with a large novelty pin of imitation coral.

The scout looked earnestly into the beautiful face of Mabel, which had flushed with the ardor and novelty of her sensations, and it was not possible to mistake the intense admiration that betrayed itself in every lineament of his ingenuous countenance.

Here is the strong novelty of militancy today: it repeats the virtues of insurrectional action of two hundred years of subversive experience, but at the same time it is linked to a new world, a world that knows no outside.

S-cubes, moongems, boxes of organic dirt, bars of niobium, tanks of helium, vats of sewage, feely tapes, intelligent prosthetics, carboys of water, and cheap mecco novelties of every description.