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Novelties

Novelty \Nov"el*ty\, n.; pl. Novelties. [OF. novelt['e], F. nouveaut['e], L. novellitas.]

  1. The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction.

    Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
    --South.

  2. Something novel; a new or strange thing.

  3. A small mass-produced article of little value; a knickknack.

    Syn: knickknack.

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novelties

n. (plural of novelty English)

Usage examples of "novelties".

If all this seems doubtful, let us contemplate some of the novelties that lie in store for us.

With old heroes and institutions toppling, with strikes, riots, and demonstrations stabbing at his consciousness, he seeks a single neat equation that will explain all the complex novelties threatening to engulf him.

For those who lack an intelligent, comprehensive program, who cannot cope with the novelties and complexities of blinding change, terrorism substitutes for thought.

The laboratories have been put to work producing genetic novelties for the Emirusing human genetic material, which isn't allowed by the Koran.

He has a big factory in New Jersey—wooden soldiers, paper novelties, train sets.

It was a novelty in the way of excursions--its like had not been thought of before, and it compelled that interest which attractive novelties always command.

They ran some danger of adding two or three months' imprisonment to the other novelties of their Holy Land Pleasure Excursion.

Thus easily do even the most startling novelties grow tame and spiritless to these sight-surfeited wanderers.

There were even some novelties, developed by the strictly local conditions.

And because of Burl's own special experiences, he was a little bit better able to estimate novelties than the rest.

The piece that followed was one of those novelties which at one time I had expected, since they were not famous, to be inevitably trivial and of no general application, devoid as they were of any existence outside the performance that was being given of them at the moment.