Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The state of being new or novel; newness.

    Neuheit, Neuartigkeit

    новизна́novizná

    новизнаnovyzna

  2. (countable, uncountable)A new product; an innovation.

    Neuheit, neues Produkt, Krimskrams

    нови́нкаnovínka

    нови́нкаnovýnka

    originality by virtue of being new and surprising

  3. (countable, uncountable)A small mass-produced trinket.

    a small inexpensive mass-produced article

  4. (countable, uncountable)In novelty theory, newness, density of complexification, and dynamic change as opposed to static habituation.

  5. (countable, uncountable)An opening move played for the first time ever (in high-level chess).

Examples

17 sentences
  1. The novelty wears off in time.

  2. The novelty will wear off in time.

  3. A novelty wears off in time.

    Новизна зношується з часом. — ChickenKiev

  4. We have discovered a great novelty.

  5. The novelty is starting to wear off.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
state of being new:
new product:
Русский
By meaning 2
state of being new:
new product:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
state of being new:
new product:

Origin

From Middle English novelte, from Old French novelté (Modern French nouveauté), from the a

From Middle English novelte, from Old French novelté (Modern French nouveauté), from the adjective novel, ultimately from Latin novellus. By surface analysis, novel + -ty.

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Forms

plural: novelties
Singularnovelty
Pluralnovelties

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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