Novelty - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- originality by virtue of being new and surprising (syn: freshness)
- a small inexpensive mass-produced article
- cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing (syn: bangle, bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, trinket)
Extra examples
Electric-powered cars are still novelties.
Eating shark meat is a novelty to many people.
Seeing people queuing for food was a novelty.
Many toys have no attraction beyond their novelty value.
It was fun for a while, but the novelty wore off (=it became boring).
Then the Internet was still something of a novelty.
A novelty that will quickly grow stale.
The novelty did not surprise me one whit.
Gradually, the novelty of city life began to pall.
It was funny for a while but the novelty soon wore off.
...that woman has enough gimcracks to fill up a novelty company's mail-order catalog...
Word forms
singular: novelty
plural: novelties
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