Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The quality of being novel; newness.
- n. Something new and unusual; an innovation.
- n. A small mass-produced article, such as a toy or trinket.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- The quality of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction.
- Unaccustomedness; strangeness; novel or unusual character or appearance: as, the novelty of one's surroundings.
- Something new or strange; a novel thing: as, to hunt after novelties.
- Especially A new article of trade; an article of novel design or new use.
- An innovation.
- In patent law, the quality of being sub-stantially different from any previous invention.
Wiktionary
- n. The state of being new or novel; newness.
- n. A new product; an innovation.
- n. A small mass-produced trinket.
- n. In novelty theory, newness, density of complexification, and dynamic change as opposed to static habituation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction.
- n. Something novel; a new or strange thing.
- n. A small mass-produced article of little value; a knickknack.
WordNet 3.0
- n. originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel
- n. cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
- n. a small inexpensive mass-produced article
- n. originality by virtue of being new and surprising
Etymologies
- Old French novelté (Modern French nouveauté), from the adjective novel, ultimately from Latin novellus. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“From my testimony then about myself, if you believe it, judge of others also who are Catholics: we do not find the difficulties which you do in the doctrines which we hold; we have no intellectual difficulty in that doctrine in particular, which you call a novelty of this day.”
“From my testimony then about myself, if you believe it, judge of others also who are Catholics: we do not find the difficulties which you do in the doctrines which we hold; we have no intellectual difficulty in that in particular, which you call a novelty of this day.”
“The business of the world is imitation, and that which we call novelty is nothing but repetition.”
“Adrian Ludwig of the Adobe AIR team recaps the various territories it has been adopted into: social apps (mostly Twitter apps, I think), enterprise apps (Salesforce, Oracle), government apps (the Polish Finance Ministry), and what I call novelty apps (like the Fast & Furious widget and the HP Green).”
“And to this day, you can still find Thundercats gear in novelty shops.”
“When it comes to monster movies, novelty is not the be-all end-all; there is always room for a splashy new death or a witty recontextualization, but there are benefits to sticking to the formula.”
“One seems like a license to print money, and the other may end up being simply an exercise in novelty printing.”
“Instead they waited until Williams said the sort of moderately dumb thing about something that had gotten a whole lot of other people fired without much forethought or responsibility (the only novelty is that for the first time, someone was saying something moderately dumb about Muslims and NOT getting away with it).”
“When apparel maker Betabrand created a pair of khaki pants whose back-pocket linings and hems could be exposed to reveal reflective fabric, it expected the pants to be a short-term novelty item.”
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“Convenience might be the reason most people give for going out to grab lunch, but novelty is a huge part of it.”
Make Your Packed Lunch More Appealing | Lifehacker Australia
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘novelty’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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JURI - patent law
admissible, absolute grounds ..., abstract, acquisition of th..., action for revoca..., admissibility of ..., acceptable, allowable, appeal to a court, appellant, applicant, application and 338 more...
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Mother-of-All-Saints
Some alternatives to calling it your 'stuff'.
Mount of Venus, nameless, name-it-not, omnibus, the novelty, niche, nest, moss-rose, peach, old-ding, old woman, the nonsuch and 115 more...
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Shadowkeir's list
This list, the one shown below this very message, is a collection of words that you cannot begin to fathom how much I adore. The list will also feature atithesis and contrasting words such as the t...
wishful, anticlimactic, forte, monchromatic, septic, wonderous, isoclinal, deformed, disintergrate, favourite, laughable, awe-inspiring and 250 more...
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jaradgiese's Words
paronomasia, ostensible, insouciant, sobriquet, burlesque, insalubrious, apotheosis, hyperbole, connubial, felicity, florid, conurbation and 642 more...
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africasunsets's list
serendipity, fragrance, glamour, smitten, nourish, lavish, luxury, wicked, gem, daring, soothe, fantasy and 192 more...
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Misc. Words.
Words I like to use, words I like but may forget.
corrosion, astonish, solace, ferment, continuum, kinesthetic, permeate, repose, caprice, cardinal, discourse, surrender and 610 more...
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Mary and Max (2009)
Words from 2009 'Mary and Max' film.
muddy, puddle, birthmark, piggyback, pensive, gumnut, pompom, salvage, takeaway, oven, shed, deliberate and 112 more...
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artoparts's Words
illation, finite, edify, abide, abrade, vouch, amiss, vociferate, perusing, techantiquery, rigamarole, holon and 615 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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favorite words
ennui, bonhomie, eschew, liaison, serendipity, lovely, dusk, kitten, epitome, sexy, beloved, darling and 396 more...
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Diversified Obsessions
calendars, running, music, men, friends, motherhood, art, food, solitude, connection, drama, humor and 117 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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jrog333's Words
hibiscus, silk shantung, tort, bitmap, blockbuster, novelty, flippant, advantageous, piqued, sunder, lithe, malversation and 1 more...
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naelyn's Words
chortle, elegant, hack, evanescent, fickle, neurological, gash, corrosive, lexicography, orthogonal, abstraction, reprehensible and 9 more...
Tweets
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seanahan
The google search should be self explanatory . Basically it is a blanket term for ice cream bars, frozen candy bars, ice cream sandwiches, and all other variety of typically frozen prepackaged desserts. Jan 6, 2008
bilby I've never heard the term ice cream novelties. What does it refer to? Read the rant and still not clear to me. Jan 5, 2008
seanahan See my rant about how I hate the term "Ice cream novelties". Jan 5, 2008