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Novelty   /nˈɑvəlti/   Listen
noun
Novelty  n.  (pl. novelties)  
1.
The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction. "Novelty is the great parent of pleasure."
2.
Something novel; a new or strange thing.
3.
A small mass-produced article of little value; a knickknack.
Synonyms: knickknack.






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"Novelty" Quotes from Famous Books



... air! Forgive me for being gross, as you call it! Remember that our calling cousins when really strangers was a snare. The enmity of our parents gave a piquancy to you in my eyes that was intenser even than the novelty of ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy

... followed by two smaller 'groups' of pieces. And these have also been chosen with a view to contrast. The finale of the Bruch concerto is an allegro energico: I follow it with a Beethoven Romance, a slow movement. The second group begins with a taking Kreisler novelty, which is succeeded by another slow number; but one very effective in its working-up; and I end my program ...
— Violin Mastery - Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers • Frederick H. Martens

... uniforms and equipment, and were shipped away in regiments to the front. Most of them did not worry about the possibility of death, but acted like all healthy human beings, ignoring what they could not affect, caught up in the novelty and the requirements of the new life. Yet deep in the consciousness of the most careless must have lain some thought that he might never return, that the cross-marked grave on the hillside, the pit, or the hospital might be ...
— The World Decision • Robert Herrick

... is the result of a struggle between the tendency to immobility, manifested by misoneism, or the hatred of novelty, and a foreign force which seeks to ...
— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero

... most interesting novelty! I cannot swallow another morsel till I have made it out! Jacobi, my best fellow, can I possess myself of a biscuit? A wedding! Do ...
— The Home • Fredrika Bremer


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