novelty
noun
nov·el·ty
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plural novelties
Definition of novelty
1
: something new or unusual
the novelty of a self-driving car
3
: a small manufactured article intended mainly for personal or household adornment
—usually used in plural Disney novelties filled the shelves.
4
: something (such as a song or food item) that provides often fleeting amusement and is often based on a theme
—often used attributively The movie included a few novelty songs.
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Examples of novelty in a Sentence
the novelty of space exploration
Electric-powered cars are still novelties.
Eating shark meat is a novelty to many people.
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Without straying much from the formulaâfirst the meet-cute, then many false starts, all culminating in happily ever afterâthe creators have to provide some element of novelty. — Judy Berman, Time, "Four Weddings and a Funeral," 24 July 2019 Itâs set a Kennedyesque timeline to pull off the feat - five years - coupled with a dash of novelty: this time a woman would leave boot prints in the moonâs dusty soil. — cleveland.com, "As NASA celebrates its biggest triumph, there are worries it wonât be able to do it again," 19 July 2019 That pattern produced thrills of novelty when Szeemann, like many brilliant artists of his halcyon moment, introduced it to pronounce an epochal abandonment of modernismâs mythology of progress. — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, "Harald Szeemannâs Revolutionary Curating," 15 July 2019 And children tried to make the most of the novelty of a city blanketed in ice in the middle of summer. — Iliana Magra, New York Times, "Mexico Hailstorm Blankets Western Areas Under 3 Feet of Ice," 1 July 2019 The scene carries a frisson of novelty, providing a feminist, forward-thinking corrective to imagery more often cast as monolithically male. — Ann Hornaday, Twin Cities, "Female ïŹlm pioneer gets her due in enlightening documentary âBe Naturalâ," 13 June 2019 And some sources of novelty are truly inane. Hankering for a house coated in slime? — Alison Murphy And Marissa Miller, WSJ, "The Unseen Cost of Subscription Boxes," 8 Nov. 2018 That makes them more of a novelty than anything else, in our view. — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, "Switchâs replica NES controllers only work with emulated NES games," 17 Sep. 2018 Sensing a novelty, the zooâs public relations department alerted the media. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "In 2019, can the San Diego Zoo make new fans out of TV viewers?," 3 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'novelty.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for novelty
novelty
noun
English Language Learners Definition of novelty
: the quality or state of being new, different, and interesting
: something that is new or unusual : something novel
: something unusual and entertaining that is popular for a short period of time
See the full definition for novelty in the English Language Learners Dictionary
novelty
noun
nov·el·ty
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plural novelties
Kids Definition of novelty
1
: something new or unusual
Grandma remembers when television was a novelty.
2
: the quality or state of being new or unusual
The toy's novelty soon wore off.
3
: a small unusual ornament or toy
novelty
noun
nov·el·ty
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plural novelties
Legal Definition of novelty
: the quality or state of being new : quality of being different from anything in prior existence
satisfied the requirement of novelty for a patent on the design
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