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Definition: Novelty |
NoveltyNoun1. Originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel. 2. Originality by virtue of being new and surprising. 3. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "novelty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Novelty \Nov"el*ty\, noun; plural Novelties. [Old French novelt['e], French nouveaut['e], Latin novellitas.]. (references) |
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Law | Character of what is not identically included in the prior art. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Novelty is a village located in Knox County, Missouri. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 119.Geography
Novelty is located at 40°0'44" North, 92°12'27" West (40.012209, -92.207594)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.7 km² (0.3 mi²). 0.7 km² (0.3 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 119 people, 57 households, and 38 families residing in the village. The population density is 164.1/km² (430.2/mi²). There are 66 housing units at an average density of 91.0/km² (238.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 100.00% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 57 households out of which 15.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.1% are married couples living together, 3.5% have a female householder with no husband present, and 33.3% are non-families. 29.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 14.0% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.09 and the average family size is 2.53. In the village the population is spread out with 11.8% under the age of 18, 11.8% from 18 to 24, 22.7% from 25 to 44, 31.1% from 45 to 64, and 22.7% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 48 years. For every 100 females there are 88.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 94.4 males. The median income for a household in the village is $29,583, and the median income for a family is $37,083. Males have a median income of $25,417 versus $20,833 for females. The per capita income for the village is $17,046. 9.9% of the population and 0.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 0.0% are under the age of 18 and 29.6% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Novelty, Missouri."
Synonyms: NoveltySynonyms: bangle (n), bauble (n), fallal (n), freshness (n), gaud (n), gewgaw (n), trinket (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dissimilarity | Noun: dissimilarity, dissimilaritude; unlikeness, diversity, disparity, dissemblance; divergence, variatioNoun: difference; novelty, originality; creativeness; oogamy. |
Newness | Noun: newness; Adjective: novelty, recency; immaturity; youth; gloss of novelty. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Novelty |
| English words defined with "novelty": miniature golf ♦ neophobia, Neoterism, Newfangledness, Newfangly, Novelry, Novity ♦ potato race ♦ sack race, Spick and span ♦ To ring the changes on. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "novelty": BEAD MAKER, BOUFFANT-CURTAIN-MACHINE TENDER, bundler ♦ cementer, machine, CLOTH PRINTER, COATING-MACHINE FEEDER, cooker, syrup, cutter and edge trimmer ♦ FREEZER OPERATOR ♦ glass-bead maker, glue-machine feeder ♦ ice-cream freezer, Itching Ears ♦ JINRIKISHA DRIVER ♦ KEY CUTTER, key maker, key worker, keysmith ♦ LEATHER STAMPER, leather tooler ♦ neophilia, novelty dipper, NOVELTY MAKER I ♦ printing-machine operator ♦ rickshaw driver ♦ Saccharissa, sauce maker, spieler, SYRUP MAKER ♦ tooler ♦ UPPER-AND-BOTTOM LACER, HAND. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "novelty": Newfangly. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Novelty" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Russian (plaything). |
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Screenplays | Well, that's a novelty -- you're refusing anything with alcohol in it (The Leech Woman; writing credit: David Duncan; Ben Pivar) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Film Novelty Series: Aren't We All (1947) Vitaphone Variety: An Organ Novelty (1939) The Novelty Shop (1936) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A novelty goods store just outside Camp Stewart, Hinesville, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Post cards for sale at a novelty goods store just outside Camp Stewart, near Hinesville, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Stores selling novelty goods and "knick knacks" have sprung up just outside the Camp Stewart grounds, near Hinesville, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The comedy novelty, Ole Olson. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The famous Rentz Santley Novelty and Burlesque Co. first time in America : the sensational scene, gay life in Paris, introducing Jardine Mabile Dance. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Royal Lilliputians a new and original idea in comedy : the season's only novelty. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Rice's production of the latest London novelty, The girl from Paris written by George Dance ; music by Ivan Caryll. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Arnold Brothers' Great Novelty Troupe original big 12. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Syra and Rolf Arras transformation gymnastic novelty. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | A novelty, the first in 20 years, Harry Houdini as a magician. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Object series" by Karl-Erik Bennion Commentary: "Shot of color oil novelty toy." |
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Mencius | In clothes we value novelty; in men, old age. |
Samuel Johnson | All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance. |
Thomas Carlyle | The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. |
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Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | The peculiar delicacy of this case, the novelty of some of its circumstances, and the real difficulty attending the points which occur in it, require a complete exposition of the principles on which the opinion to be given by the court is founded. (reference) |
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Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | What we need for conversation is a topic of interest and of novelty. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dulness |
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Business | Wind Generators, until recently, were treated as a novelty and not taken seriously, but as more systems are installed there is more acceptance of them as a viable alternative to extended grid connection. (references) | |
The novelty effect has worn off fast, and some of the companies who were quite active in the DRTV business (e.g., Goede, one of Germany’s leading collectors’ items order houses) have withdrawn from this distribution method completely. (references) | ||
The Argentine textile and garment industries operate with a large degree of self-sufficiency, but do rely heavily on imports of technology, machinery, non-cotton fibers, raw materials for synthetic fibers and fabrics, and novelty items (buttons, decorations, accessories). (references) | ||
Economic History | New Zealand | An application is examined and a search for novelty is made. (references) |
Argentina | Novelty, flexibility, fast delivery, and service are increasingly important to Argentine consumers. (references) | |
West Bank | In Gaza the novelty requirement for patenting may be met if the invention has not been previously published or used. (references) | |
Political Economy | BELGIUM | The Belgian courts have the power to nullify a patent if the court feels that the patent does not meet the Novelty and Non-obvious specifications. (references) |
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO | The Patents Act of 1996 introduced internationally accepted criteria for registration of universal novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability, along with a full search and examination procedure. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Samoa | While workers have the legal right to engage in collective bargaining, they seldom have practiced it, due to the novelty of union activity and the inexperience of union leaders. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | I have seen television grow from a parlor novelty to become the most powerful vehicle of communication in history. |
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| "Novelty" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.63% of the time. "Novelty" is used about 534 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.63% | 532 | 11,529 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.37% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 534 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Novelty, MO (town, FIPS 53516) 2. Novelty, OH |
Expressions using "novelty": gloss of novelty ♦ novelty counter ♦ novelty shop ♦ party novelty. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
adult novelty | 559 | novelty shirt | 68 |
novelty | 473 | novelty candy | 67 |
novelty gift | 352 | novelty ids | 65 |
novelty t shirt | 333 | novelty hat | 64 |
novelty phone | 273 | religious novelty gift | 57 |
novelty item | 180 | novelty wholesale | 56 |
novelty helmet | 131 | adult novelty store | 52 |
rhode island novelty | 126 | novelty catalog | 50 |
novelty clock | 118 | novelty tee shirt | 47 |
novelty fabric | 103 | novelty key chain | 46 |
novelty tie | 100 | novelty mail box | 46 |
novelty toy | 98 | novelty shop | 45 |
novelty store | 85 | novelty cake pan | 44 |
novelty light | 81 | novelty lamp | 43 |
novelty lighter | 81 | novelty watch | 43 |
novelty id | 80 | wholesale novelty item | 40 |
novelty license plate | 73 | novelty sign | 40 |
novelty cake | 71 | sock novelty | 39 |
motorcycle helmet novelty | 71 | novelty song | 39 |
novelty condom | 70 | novelty shower curtain | 39 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "novelty"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | nuus (news, something, something new). (various references) | |
Albanian | novacion (novation), të reja (news, tidings), risi (innovation, newness), gjë e re. (various references) | |
Arabic | حداثة (modernity, newness, recency), تجديد (innovation, modernization, newness, rebuilding, reconditioning, regeneration, rejuvenation, renewal, renovation, restoration, revival), البدعة, إبداع (creation, fantasy, ingeniousness, ingenuity, magnum opus, originality, origination, phantasy), بدعة (fad, heresy). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | новост (innovation, modernism, modernity, newness, novation, recency, the new), нещо необикновено (wow), нещо непознато. (various references) | |
Catalan | notícies (news, something new). (various references) | |
Chinese | 新奇 (Newness, Novelties). (various references) | |
Czech | novota (novelties), novost (novelties, recency), novinka (innovation, news). (various references) | |
Danish | nyhed (news, something new). (various references) | |
Dutch | nieuwtje (news, something new), nieuws (news, something new), nieuwigheid (news, something new). (various references) | |
Esperanto | novaĵo (news, something new). (various references) | |
Faeroese | tíðindi (news, something new). (various references) | |
Farsi | چیزنو, چیزتازه , نوظهوری , تازگی (Recency). (various references) | |
Finnish | uutuus (newness), uutukainen (newness). (various references) | |
French | nouveauté. (various references) | |
Frisian | nijs (news, something new). (various references) | |
German | Neuheit (freshness, innovation, newness, news, recency, something new). (various references) | |
Greek | καινοτομία (innovation), νέα εφεύρεση, νεωτερισμόσ (innovation, modernism, modernity). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חדוש (innovation, newness, renovation, resumption), חדשה (news), טריות (freshness, newness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | újdonság (newness), újszerűség, új volta vminek (newness). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kebaruan (newness. novelty). (various references) | |
Italian | novità (innovation, news, recency, recentness, strangeness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 異色 (different color, unique), ノイマン型 (christmas, fungo, Hague, heart, Hercules, hook, knob, knock, knockdown, knocker, knocking, knock-on, knockout, knot, know, know-how, knowledge, nautical mile per hour, Neumann-type, neuron, neurosis, no, noctovision, nocturne, nominal, nominal price, nominate, nomination, nomogram, nomograph, non career, non cling, non store retailing, non troppo, non-attachment disease, nonbank banking, nonbook, nonchalant, non-conforming design, nonfiction, nonius, nonpolitical, non-professional, nonrun, non-sectarian, nonsense, nonslip, nonstop, non-terminal, nontitle match, non-verbal, non-verbal communication, Noraism, Nordic, Norma, Normandy, Norway, nostalgia, nostalgic, nostalgie, notation, notch, notchback, notch-filter, nova, Nova Scotia, novel, nozzle, number, swastika, unaffiliated, vernier calipers, vernier micrometer), 新規 (originality), 新案 (new idea or design), 新味 , 変種 (eccentric personality, exception, freak, hybrid, mutation, variety), 変り種 (eccentric personality, exception, freak, hybrid, mutation, variety), 変わり種 (eccentric personality, exception, freak, hybrid, mutation, variety), アイディア商品 (Ainu, idealist, identification, identification card, identify, identity, identity card, idle capital, idle cost, idle system, idle time, idling, idol). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ノベルティー , しんあん (new idea or design), しんみ (cordial, kind, relative, true meaning), しんき (divinity, encouragement, feelings, fretfulness, mind, novel, one's mental state or attitude, originality, sacred treasure, spirit, stimulation, tedium, the elements, the three sacred treasures), かわりだね (eccentric personality, exception, freak, hybrid, mutation, variety), いしょく (different color, engrafting, entrusting, food and clothing, implantation, livelihood, living, porting, transplanting, unique), アイディアしょうひん, へんしゅ (eccentric personality, exception, freak, hybrid, mutation, swindling, variety). (various references) | |
Korean | 참신 (Novelties). (various references) | |
Manx | red noa, noays (newness), noanid (recentness), noaid (freshness, innovation, newness, originality), noaght (freshness, modernity, newness), anoaysh (strangeness). (various references) | |
Papiamen | notisia (news, something new), nobedat (news, something new). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oveltynay.(various references) | |
Polish | nowina (news, something new), rzecz nowa (news, something new). (various references) | |
Portuguese | inovação (innovation, newness, news, something new). (various references) | |
Romanian | noutate (freshness, news, originality), schimbare (about-face, alteration, change, changeableness, chop, conversion, exchange, fluctuation, modification, mutability, mutation, passage, shift, transformation, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability, variance, variation), prospeţime (flush, freshness, greenness), lucru nou, inovaţie (innovation), caracter nou. (various references) | |
Russian | новизна (newness, originality, recency). (various references) | |
Scottish | naidheachd (news, something new, tidings), annas (rarity). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | novost (newness, news, piece of news), novina (innovation, newness, originality). (various references) | |
Spanish | noticias (advice, announcement, communication, information, intelligence, message, news, notice, report, something new, tidings), novedad (development, fad, newness, news, originality, recency, release, strangeness). (various references) | |
Sranan | nyunsu (news, something new). (various references) | |
Swahili | habari (news, something new). (various references) | |
Swedish | nymodighet (novation), nyhet (freshness, innovation, item, newness, recency). (various references) | |
Thai | ความใหม่ (newness, recency). (various references) | |
Turkish | yenilik (change, departure, improvement, innovation, neology, newness, recency, reform), yeni çıkmış şey, tuhaflık (antics, Dido, fad, grotesqueness, queerness, singularity, strangeness), acayiplik (antics, crankiness, eccentricity, fantasticality, lark, oddity, oddness, peculiarity, queerness, quirk, singularity, strangeness, whimsicality, whimsicalness). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нововведення (innovation, newness, novation), новинка (newness), новинки, новина (breeze, news, novation, novel, tidings, wrinkle), новизна (newness, novity, originality, recency). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính mới lạ, tính mới, tính lạ thường vật mới lạ, đồ ăn mặc. (various references) | |
Welsh | newyddion (news, something new), newydd-deb (newness), newyddbeth. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | novitas, novitate, novitates, novus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Novelty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dovleti, nevelty, noely, nonely, novelity, novilty, novit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "novelty" (pronounced nÄ"vultē) |
| 4 | -u l t ē | admiralty, casualty, disloyalty, faculty, fealty, loyalty, mayoralty, penalty, realty, royalty, specialty, subtlety. |
| 3 | -l t ē | cruelty, difficulty, kilty, faulty, frailty, guilty, salty. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-l-n-o-t-v-y" | |
-2 letters: envoy, lento, novel, toney, volte. | |
-3 letters: enol, envy, leno, lent, levo, levy, lone, love, noel, note, only, oven, tole, tone, tony, tyne, vent, veto, vole, volt, vote. | |
-4 letters: eon, let, lev, ley, lot, lye, net, not, ole, one, tel, ten, toe, ton, toy, tye, vet, voe, yen, yet, yon. | |
-5 letters: el, en, et, lo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-l-n-o-t-v-y" | |
+2 letters: longevity, solvently, violently. | |
+3 letters: covalently, covetingly, polyvalent. | |
+4 letters: cognitively, convertibly, inviolately, normatively, observantly, ostensively, providently, revoltingly, ventilatory, ventriloquy, venturously. | |
+5 letters: benevolently, connectively, conveniently, conventually, devotionally, evolutionary, inchoatively, innovatively, malevolently, nonviolently, protensively. | |
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