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novelty Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 the quality of being new and unusual:
- The novelty of these toys soon wore off and the children became bored with them.
- In Britain in the 1950s, television still had novelty value.
- Tourists are still a novelty on this remote island.
- The shop sells gifts and other novelties.
- A Christmas cracker usually contains a paper hat, a joke, and a novelty.
- a novelty item
1 the quality of being new or unusual, or a new or unusual experience:
- [ U ] The novelty of the toys soon wore off.
2 the quality of being new and unusual:
- Sales of the new game are very high, but they will start to drop as the novelty wears off.
3 something that is new and unusual:
- Flexible schedules, once a novelty, are now more commonplace.
4 a cheap unusual object such as a small toy, often given as a present:
- We sell toys, glassware, handicrafts, table decorations, and novelties at moderate prices.

Adaptation and exaptation are evolutionary novelties (apomorphies), which cannot logically be ancestral to their own supposed origins (corresponding plesiomorphies).
The in vitro propagation of this species was difficult and presented various novelties.
Others, however, felt overwhelmed by the countless other novelties of the project and could not be persuaded to deal with an exotic liquid metal.
They were also working horizontally, trying on new cultural forms, weaving novelties out of inherited strands of cultural practice, so as to position themselves in a challenging new world.
The novelties are: the consideration of nonlocal systems and the study of a larger class of degenerate parabolic systems corresponding to capillary three-phase filtration with nonlinear mobility laws.
We also need public opinion that supports novelties and innovation in the market.
The fact is that people like these novelties.
There are a number of novelties in this group of investment funds which may want to become registered under the new regime.