innovation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=no=va=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

innovation, n. [L. innovatio; cf. F. innovation.].

•  The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, commercial products, etc.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
•  A change effected by innovating; a change in customs; something new, and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

  "The love of things ancient doth argue stayedness, but levity and lack of experience maketh apt unto innovations."  [1913 Webster]
•  A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

innovation

advance guard, alteration, archetype, authenticity, avant-garde, breakthrough, coinage, creativeness, creativity, deviation, discovery, freshness, introduction, invention, inventiveness, latest fad, latest fashion, latest wrinkle, leap, model, modernization, mutation, neologism, new departure, new look, new phase, newfangled device, newness, nonimitation, novelty, original, originality, pattern, permutation, pilot model, prototype, sport, the in thing, the last word, the latest thing, uniqueness, vanguard, vicissitude, wrinkle

ROGET THESAURUS

innovation

Variation

N variation, alteration, modification, moods and tenses, discrepance, discrepancy, divergency, deviation, aberration, innovation, varied, modified, diversified.

Newness

N newness, novelty, recency, immaturity, youth, gloss of novelty, innovation, renovation, modernism, mushroom, parvenu, latest fashion, new, novel, recent, fresh, green, young, evergreen, raw, immature, unsettled, yeasty, virgin, untried, unhandseled, untrodden, untrod, unbeaten, fire-new, span-new, late, modern, neoteric, hypermodern, nouveau, new-born, nascent, neonatal, new-fashioned, new-fangled, new-fledged, of yesterday, just out, brand-new, up to date, up to the minute, with it, fashionable, in fashion, in, hip, vernal, renovated, sempervirent, sempervirid, fresh as a rose, fresh as a daisy, fresh as paint, spick and span, newly, afresh, anew, lately, just now, only yesterday, the other day, latterly, of late, not long ago, a short time ago, di novello tutto par bello, nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum est prius, una scopa nuova spazza bene.

Change

N change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, evolution, revolution, diversion, break, transformation, transfiguration, metamorphosis, transmutation, deoxidization, transubstantiation, mutagenesis transanimation, transmigration, metempsychosis, avatar, alterative, conversion, revolution &c (sudden or radical change), inversion, displacement, transference, changeableness, tergiversation, changed, newfangled, changeable, transitional, modifiable, alterative, mutatis mutandis, Int, quantum mutatus!, a change came o'er the spirit of my dream, nous avons change tout cela, tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis, non sum qualis eram, casaque tourner, corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur, in statu quo ante bellum, still ending and beginning still, vox audita perit littera scripta manet.