noun, adjective
noun (plural novelties)
1 [U] the quality of being new, different and interesting:
It was fun working there at first but the novelty soon wore off (= it became boring). * There's a certain novelty value in this approach. * We must not mistake novelty for originality and quality.
2 [C] a thing, person or situation that is interesting because it is new, unusual, or has not been known before:
Electric-powered cars are still something of a novelty.
3 [C] a small cheap object sold as a toy or an ornament:
chocolate novelties sold at Easter
adjective [onlybeforenoun] different and unusual; intended to be amusing and to catch people's attention:
a novelty teapot
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for novelty is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does novelty appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — novelty appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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