Definitions for novelty

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novelty nov·el·ty

Spelling: [nov-uh l-tee]

IPA: /ˈnɒv əl ti/

Novelty is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in novelty (elnotvy).

Definitions for novelty

noun

1. state or quality of being novel, new, or unique; newness:
2. a novel occurrence, experience, or proceeding:
3. an article of trade whose value is chiefly decorative, comic, or the like and whose appeal is often transitory:

adjective

1. Textiles. (of a weave) consisting of a combination of basic weaves. (of a fabric or garment) having a pattern or design produced by a novelty weave. (of yarn) having irregularities within the fibrous structure.
2. of or relating to novelties as articles of trade:
3. having or displaying novelties:

Origin of novelty

1350-1400; Middle English novelte Middle French novelete Late Latin novellitās newness. See novel², -ity

Examples for novelty

Some other novelty will spring up one day, and you will be released.

Not even the hawkiest neo-conservative is calling for war, a novelty in recent American history.

The appeal of Bitcoin lies in part in its novelty and techy-ness.

The novelty of the experience had made her eyes shine like stars.

As the novelty wore off, people began to doubt and reason about it.

For them, novelty and naughtiness were the ultimate aphrodisiacs.

novelty aside, the real question is whether these avowedly chaste men of the cloth are listening.

Nor was he ever diverted from his predilections by mere fashion or novelty.

“The novelty of David Duke has worn off,” said Scalise then.

There is nothing of novelty to them in this tacitly shared sense of gloom.