Crossword clues for novelty
novelty
- Squirting flower, say
- Whim-wham
- Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing
- Originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel
- Originality by virtue of being new and surprising
- Newness
- Vet only reused something new
- Month with evangelical Tory on vacation? That's different!
- Creativity in book covers of Tolstoy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Novelty \Nov"el*ty\, n.; pl. Novelties. [OF. novelt['e], F. nouveaut['e], L. novellitas.]
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The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction.
Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.
--South. Something novel; a new or strange thing.
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A small mass-produced article of little value; a knickknack.
Syn: knickknack.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "quality of being new," also "a new manner or fashion, an innovation; something new or unusual," from Old French noveleté "newness, innovation, change; news, new fashion" (Modern French nouveauté), from novel "new" (see novel (adj.)). Meaning "newness" is attested from late 14c.; sense of "useless but amusing object" is attested from 1901 (as in novelty shop, 1973).
Wiktionary
n. The state of being new or novel; newness.
WordNet
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 66
Land area (2000): 0.276614 sq. miles (0.716426 sq. km)
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Total area (2000): 0.276614 sq. miles (0.716426 sq. km)
FIPS code: 53516
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 40.012209 N, 92.207594 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 63460
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Wikipedia
Novelty is a patentability requirement. An invention is not new and therefore not patentable if it was known to the public before the date of filing of the patent application, or before its date of priority if the priority of an earlier patent application is claimed. The purpose of the novelty requirement is to prevent the prior art from being patented again.
Novelty was an early steam locomotive built by John Ericsson and John Braithwaite to take part in the Rainhill Trials in 1829.
It was an 0-2-2WT locomotive and is now regarded as the very first tank engine. It had a unique design of boiler and a number of other novel design features (perhaps explaining the choice of name). Unfortunately, several of the major components had significant design weaknesses which ultimately resulted in its failure at the Trials.
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.
From the meaning of being unusual usage is derived the concept of the novelty dance (a type of dance that is popular for being unusual or humorous); the novelty song (a musical item that capitalizes on something new, unusual, or a current fad); the novelty show (a competition or display in which exhibits or specimens are in way some novel); and novelty architecture (a building or other structure that is interesting because it has an amusing design). It is also this sense that applies to a novelty item, a small manufactured adornment, toy or collectible. These, in turn are often used as promotional merchandise in marketing. The chess term, novelty, is used for a move in chess which has never been played before in a recorded game.
The term can have pejorative sense and refer to a mere innovation. However, novelty in patent law is part of the legal test to determine whether an invention is patentable. A novelty effect is the tendency for performance to initially improve when new technology is instituted.
Novelty is the characteristic of being new or heretofore unseen. It may also refer to:
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Novelty item, a small manufactured adornment, toy or collectible
- Promotional item, novelties used in promotional marketing.
- Novelty (patent), part of the legal test to determine whether an invention is patentable
- Novelty as described by the theory of emergence, regarding how new complexity arises from more simple interactions.
- Novelty theory, an eschatological theory promoted by Terence McKenna
- Novelty (locomotive), one of the first steam locomotives which was due to compete at the Rainhill Trials of 1829
- Novelty dance, a type of dance that is popular for being unusual or humorous
- Novelty song, a musical item that capitalizes on something new, unusual, or a current fad
- Novelty show, a competition or display in which exhibits or specimens are in way some novel
- Novelty architecture, a building or other structure that is interesting because it has an amusing design
- Novelty effect, the tendency for performance to initially improve when new technology is instituted
- Novelty (chess), a chess term for a move in chess which has never been played before in a recorded game
- Novelty (album) by Jawbox
Novelty is an album from the early 90's by Jawbox. The songs "Static" and "Cutoff" were singles from the album, but only the latter had a music video.
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.