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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



... gladness grew with each impression of the beauty and novelty. It quickened associations of his earliest days, and of the winter among his native hills. He felt that life could be very pleasant in this latitude; he relinquished the notion he had cherished at times of going ...
— The Quality of Mercy • W. D. Howells
... the Shipping interests, Ost-Friesland awakened very ardent speculations, which were a novelty in Prussian affairs; nothing of Foreign Trade, except into the limited Baltic, had been heard of there since the Great Elector's time. The Great Elector had ships, Forts on the Coast of Africa; and tried hard for Atlantic Trade,—out of this same Embden; where, ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVI. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great--The Ten Years of Peace.--1746-1756. • Thomas Carlyle
... contriver of such carriages. He had several, of different styles, and probably the most remarkable of his experiments was the making of one with a divided boiler, to relieve the fears which were common then amongst people to whom steam was a novelty, and who fancied that a boiler was in great danger of bursting from the pressure of the steam. Some folk said that Mr. Gurney, who was a doctor, took the idea of his peculiar boiler from the arteries and veins ...
— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various
... OF NEW YORK:—The facts with which I shall deal this evening are mainly old and familiar; nor is there anything new in the general use I shall make of them. If there shall be any novelty, it will be in the mode of presenting the facts, and the inferences ...
— Abraham Lincoln • George Haven Putnam
... feel a secret pleasure in creating, and seeing life spring up again: the beauty of weakness has a grace and an attraction the more for those who have been the agents of unbending force; and the watching over the frail germs of life has all the charms of novelty for ...
— An "Attic" Philosopher, Complete • Emile Souvestre


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