Definition of Novelty

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Definition of Novelty
	Novelty The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction. Something novel; a new or strange thing. Related Definitions: Being, Freshness, Introduction, New, Newness, Novel, Of, Or, Origin, Quality, Recentness, Something, State, Strange, The, Thing

Novelty Quotations

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will Rogers

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
Marcel Proust

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.
Jean Piaget

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Thomas Carlyle

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Carl Rogers

The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
Simone de Beauvoir

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
Baltasar Gracian

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.
John Polkinghorne

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
Nicolaus Copernicus

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Walter Lippmann

Novelty Translations

novelty in Afrikaans is nuus
novelty in Danish is nyhed
novelty in Dutch is nieuwtje, nieuws, nieuwigheid
novelty in German is Neuheit
novelty in Latin is novitas, novus
novelty in Spanish is noticias, novedad
novelty in Swedish is nymodighet, nyhet

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