novelty

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: nov=el=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

novelty, n. [OF. novelté, F. nouveauté, L. novellitas.].

•  The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction.  [1913 Webster]

  "Novelty is the great parent of pleasure."  [1913 Webster]
•  Something novel; a new or strange thing.  [1913 Webster]
•  A small mass-produced article of little value; a knickknack.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

novelty, n. & adj.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 a newness; new character. b originality.
2 a new or unusual thing or occurrence.
3 a small toy or decoration etc. of novel design.
4 (attrib.) having novelty (novelty toys).

Etymology

ME f. OF novelt{eacute} (as NOVEL(2))

THESAURUS

novelty

advance guard, authenticity, avant-garde, bauble, brand-newness, callowness, craze, creativeness, creativity, dewiness, fad, faddiness, faddishness, faddism, faddist, freshness, gewgaw, gimcrack, gimmick, gloss of novelty, greenness, immaturity, innovation, innovativeness, intactness, inventiveness, kickshaw, lateness, latest fad, latest fashion, latest wrinkle, maidenhood, mint condition, new look, newbornness, newfangled device, newfangledness, newfangleness, newness, nonimitation, novelness, nowness, originality, ornament, plaything, presentness, pristineness, rage, rawness, recency, recentness, strangeness, the in thing, the last word, the latest thing, toy, trifle, trinket, uncommonness, unfamiliarity, uniqueness, unusualness, vanguard, virginity, wrinkle

ROGET THESAURUS

novelty

Dissimilarity

N dissimilarity, dissimilaritude, unlikeness, diversity, disparity, dissemblance, divergence, variation, difference, novelty, originality, creativeness, oogamy, dissimilar, unlike, disparate, divergent, of a different kind, unmatched, unique, new, novel, unprecedented, original, nothing of the kind, no such thing, quite another thing, far from it, cast in a different mold, tertium quid, as like a dock as a daisy, very like a whale, as different as chalk from cheese, as different as Macedon and Monmouth, lucus a non lucendo, diversified, otherwise, diis aliter visum, no more like my father than I to Hercules.

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.