Definition of novelty in English:

novelty

nounPlural novelties ˈnɒv(ə)ltiˈnɑvəlti

1mass noun The quality of being new, original, or unusual.
新奇；新奇性；新颖；与众不同
the novelty of being a married woman wore off
作为一个已婚女子的新奇感逐渐消失了。
Example sentencesExamples
- That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans.
- Like Chris, they enjoy the novelty of having a hobby that is not mainstream.
- History shows that my novelty value tends to wear off within about two minutes.
- They seemed to enjoy the novelty of not having lots of things to do.
- Here is a brief quote from a much larger section of the book concerned with novelty and different paradigms of information-presentation.
- After the initial novelty wears off, the bonus rounds become quite predictable.
- It was he who coined the term ‘the Condition of England’ and it was he who pressed the English to come to terms with the modern urbanized and industrialized novelty of their condition.
- But opinion is often shaped by a modern preference for novelty.
- The novelty of the quality improvement approach was welcomed by patients and staff as a way to change the system.
- Beyond its chronological breadth and the relative novelty of its subject, this book has much to recommend it.
- Regardless, the VP was certainly excited by the sheer novelty of the experience.
- The cool temperatures and dampness of the cave doomed it to failure though and the novelty eventually wore off.
- The first is about the degree of novelty and difference represented by the current order, and is preoccupied by assessments of the elements of continuity and discontinuity within it.
- Distributing 7,500 garbage pails around Central Park with a teddy bear atop each might be as creative, if creativity is measured by novelty.
- They mistook novelty for originality, creativity, and competence.
- In the current rush for novelty and innovation, an artist such as Arikha is easily bypassed as old-fashioned or backward-looking, an anomaly.
- Tom said he started bringing a book to work to pass the time after the initial novelty wore off.
- With some annual vines, the appeal is sheer novelty.
- Perhaps many people are seduced by the sheer novelty or comedy of my appearance.
- But creativity means appearance of novelty, which by definition exists outside the confines of a deterministic universe.
Synonyms
originality, newness, freshness, unconventionality, unfamiliarity, unusualness, difference, imaginativeness, creativity, creativeness, innovativeness, innovation, modernity, modernness, break with tradition
1. 1.1count noun A new or unfamiliar thing or experience.
  新鲜事；不同寻常的经历
  in 1914 air travel was still a novelty
  1914年时乘飞机旅行还是件新鲜事。
  Example sentencesExamples
  "It's fun, " said one participant in a recent seminar to introduce the latest novelty.
  Intel servers are a relative novelty at IBM, which until the late 1990s favoured its higher-end server families.
  When students make the transition from one school to the next, they experience the usual novelties associated with any advancement to the next grade, such as a more challenging curriculum.
  And he did it consistently, not on a whim as a novelty or diversion.
  Always veering towards the conservative and traditional, they dislike novelties, experimentation or quirky fads.
  One of the most fundamental problems in modern evolutionary biology is the origin of morphological novelty.
  Spanish football is experiencing a novelty: the successful export of some of its better footballers.
  This important knowledge will help to protect us against subtle heresy and fashionable novelties.
  A person's inherent need for sensation is not necessarily obvious in the early stages of a relationship, when love itself is a novelty and carries its own thrills.
  Casual sexual experiences are not a novelty for either of them (they have both had sex with other partners in the toilets of a particular pub, for example).
  The revised chapter on morphological novelties is superb.
  After ten years, she was still widely, if eccentrically, regarded as a fascinating novelty; a breath of fresh air.
  Failure of feeling is accompanied by a desire for ever more violent sensations, like those really bad love affairs; frequent novelties, spectator tragedies of the kind that TV and the media adore.
  I think the yellow hair and blue eyes were a real novelty for them.
  The novelties introduced by these elections were many, interesting, and ripe with consequences.
  Yet this area is crucial, as all evolutionary novelties ultimately arise from intraspecific variation.
  The pectoral girdle and forelimb also reveal suites of hierarchically nested morphological novelties supporting the theropod origin of birds.
  The Jerusalem artichoke at first had an enthusiastic reception in Europe, where its curious, sweet taste was a novelty.
  Heterochrony is often cited as a pathway for the appearance of evolutionary novelties.
  My companion had never eaten sushi before and found the whole experience a novelty.
2. 1.2as modifier Denoting an object intended to be amusing as a result of its unusual design.
  以其新奇吸引人的；意在以其新奇引人注意的
  a novelty teapot
  新奇茶壶。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The company has had particular success with its innovative frozen novelties.
  She designed a novelty cake using a scene from the Lord of the Rings film based on the novel of the same name by J.R. Tolkien for inspiration.
  And it's certainly worth a listen, as most novelty songs are.
  Included are figure dancing, solo dancing, recitations, music and novelty acts.
  A plate rack held a variety of novelty teapots and a selection of mobiles occupied one corner of the room.
  Amazingly, the novelty record is outselling the rest of the singles chart twice over, and has sold three times as many copies as Coldplay - according to mid-week sales figures.
  His Uncle Milton Ant Farm rocked the novelty world when it was launched in 1956, and since then more than 20 million units have sold.
  I do, however, need to get rid of it pretty sharpish otherwise things could get rather messy: I seem to collect mortgages like some people collect novelty teapots.
  You are probably one of those students who uses novelty fonts in your designs because they look ‘cool.’
  The winner of the novelty cake was Michelle Flatley, Moyview.
  Both reports had treated the group and the response of its fans as a mildly amusing novelty item.
  While the only thing it's actually revolutionized so far is the novelty items industry, it does deserve some credit as an impressive work of technology.
  The shift is designed to improve margins on the company's novelty products.
  Did you feel embarrassed eating an ice cream novelty shaped like a cartoon character?
  Dustbin bags: you'll need loads, for all the empty bottles, and the cooking and gift detritus - and to dump the novelty rubber gloves trimmed with maribou and fake gemstones.
  Firefighters are warning of the dangers of children mistaking novelty lighters for toys.
  He's either an amusing novelty act or just plain annoying.
  The fact is that frozen novelties are indeed hot and getting hotter by the minute.
  Too much Affordably Good Design made me want to go straight to a novelty shop in Devizes to buy a toby jug of a grinning trawlerman's head sporting a yellow sou'wester.
  This year, he's already signed on to design a sports beverage novelty product called Baby Bailers, which is being manufactured in Hong Kong.
2A small and inexpensive toy or ornament.
小玩具，小饰品
he bought chocolate novelties to decorate the Christmas tree
他买了模样新奇的巧克力来装饰圣诞树。
Example sentencesExamples
- Ebay started in business by helping enthusiasts to swap novelty toys.
- Graham came up the stairs to find me going all gooey over a bookshop novelty from America, containing a small garden gnome, a patch of artificial grass and a stand depicting a cottage garden.
- The other three items were also children's novelty toys.
- They sent 15 samples of toys, decorations and novelties to Worcester Scientific Services for testing.
- Besides a Frisbee, the novelties they offered her included plastic rings, a shoe, a bucket, and a tin can.
- You can shop for novelties such as silver ornaments and local garments, while forgetting the madness of crowded department stores on Shanghai's Huaihai Lu.
- Will they come back again, or were they just buying a novelty item?
- Cheap, mass-produced plastic trinkets and novelties are the only treasures available to the vast numbers of the world's population.
- They weren't even on the seasonal novelty aisle.
- It had what looked like several antique ornaments and novelties on display.
Synonyms
knick-knack, trinket, bauble, toy, trifle, gewgaw, gimcrack, ornament, curiosity
memento, souvenir
North American kickshaw
archaic gaud, folderol

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French novelte, from novel 'new, fresh' (see novel²).

Definition of novelty in US English:

novelty

nounˈnɑvəltiˈnävəltē

1The quality of being new, original, or unusual.
新奇；新奇性；新颖；与众不同
the novelty of being a married woman wore off
作为一个已婚女子的新奇感逐渐消失了。
Example sentencesExamples
- They mistook novelty for originality, creativity, and competence.
- Perhaps many people are seduced by the sheer novelty or comedy of my appearance.
- They seemed to enjoy the novelty of not having lots of things to do.
- In the current rush for novelty and innovation, an artist such as Arikha is easily bypassed as old-fashioned or backward-looking, an anomaly.
- Distributing 7,500 garbage pails around Central Park with a teddy bear atop each might be as creative, if creativity is measured by novelty.
- Like Chris, they enjoy the novelty of having a hobby that is not mainstream.
- The first is about the degree of novelty and difference represented by the current order, and is preoccupied by assessments of the elements of continuity and discontinuity within it.
- Tom said he started bringing a book to work to pass the time after the initial novelty wore off.
- Regardless, the VP was certainly excited by the sheer novelty of the experience.
- With some annual vines, the appeal is sheer novelty.
- But opinion is often shaped by a modern preference for novelty.
- History shows that my novelty value tends to wear off within about two minutes.
- But creativity means appearance of novelty, which by definition exists outside the confines of a deterministic universe.
- The novelty of the quality improvement approach was welcomed by patients and staff as a way to change the system.
- The cool temperatures and dampness of the cave doomed it to failure though and the novelty eventually wore off.
- After the initial novelty wears off, the bonus rounds become quite predictable.
- Beyond its chronological breadth and the relative novelty of its subject, this book has much to recommend it.
- That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans.
- Here is a brief quote from a much larger section of the book concerned with novelty and different paradigms of information-presentation.
- It was he who coined the term ‘the Condition of England’ and it was he who pressed the English to come to terms with the modern urbanized and industrialized novelty of their condition.
Synonyms
originality, newness, freshness, unconventionality, unfamiliarity, unusualness, difference, imaginativeness, creativity, creativeness, innovativeness, innovation, modernity, modernness, break with tradition
1. 1.1 A new or unfamiliar thing or experience.
  新鲜事；不同寻常的经历
  in 1914 air travel was still a novelty
  1914年时乘飞机旅行还是件新鲜事。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Always veering towards the conservative and traditional, they dislike novelties, experimentation or quirky fads.
  And he did it consistently, not on a whim as a novelty or diversion.
  When students make the transition from one school to the next, they experience the usual novelties associated with any advancement to the next grade, such as a more challenging curriculum.
  My companion had never eaten sushi before and found the whole experience a novelty.
  One of the most fundamental problems in modern evolutionary biology is the origin of morphological novelty.
  Casual sexual experiences are not a novelty for either of them (they have both had sex with other partners in the toilets of a particular pub, for example).
  The revised chapter on morphological novelties is superb.
  After ten years, she was still widely, if eccentrically, regarded as a fascinating novelty; a breath of fresh air.
  Intel servers are a relative novelty at IBM, which until the late 1990s favoured its higher-end server families.
  "It's fun, " said one participant in a recent seminar to introduce the latest novelty.
  The novelties introduced by these elections were many, interesting, and ripe with consequences.
  This important knowledge will help to protect us against subtle heresy and fashionable novelties.
  Spanish football is experiencing a novelty: the successful export of some of its better footballers.
  Heterochrony is often cited as a pathway for the appearance of evolutionary novelties.
  I think the yellow hair and blue eyes were a real novelty for them.
  Yet this area is crucial, as all evolutionary novelties ultimately arise from intraspecific variation.
  A person's inherent need for sensation is not necessarily obvious in the early stages of a relationship, when love itself is a novelty and carries its own thrills.
  The pectoral girdle and forelimb also reveal suites of hierarchically nested morphological novelties supporting the theropod origin of birds.
  The Jerusalem artichoke at first had an enthusiastic reception in Europe, where its curious, sweet taste was a novelty.
  Failure of feeling is accompanied by a desire for ever more violent sensations, like those really bad love affairs; frequent novelties, spectator tragedies of the kind that TV and the media adore.
2. 1.2as modifier Denoting something intended to be amusing as a result of its new or unusual quality.
  以其新奇吸引人的；意在以其新奇引人注意的
  a novelty teapot
  新奇茶壶。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Both reports had treated the group and the response of its fans as a mildly amusing novelty item.
  You are probably one of those students who uses novelty fonts in your designs because they look ‘cool.’
  And it's certainly worth a listen, as most novelty songs are.
  Amazingly, the novelty record is outselling the rest of the singles chart twice over, and has sold three times as many copies as Coldplay - according to mid-week sales figures.
  Did you feel embarrassed eating an ice cream novelty shaped like a cartoon character?
  The company has had particular success with its innovative frozen novelties.
  While the only thing it's actually revolutionized so far is the novelty items industry, it does deserve some credit as an impressive work of technology.
  Included are figure dancing, solo dancing, recitations, music and novelty acts.
  A plate rack held a variety of novelty teapots and a selection of mobiles occupied one corner of the room.
  The winner of the novelty cake was Michelle Flatley, Moyview.
  His Uncle Milton Ant Farm rocked the novelty world when it was launched in 1956, and since then more than 20 million units have sold.
  Firefighters are warning of the dangers of children mistaking novelty lighters for toys.
  I do, however, need to get rid of it pretty sharpish otherwise things could get rather messy: I seem to collect mortgages like some people collect novelty teapots.
  Too much Affordably Good Design made me want to go straight to a novelty shop in Devizes to buy a toby jug of a grinning trawlerman's head sporting a yellow sou'wester.
  The fact is that frozen novelties are indeed hot and getting hotter by the minute.
  The shift is designed to improve margins on the company's novelty products.
  He's either an amusing novelty act or just plain annoying.
  Dustbin bags: you'll need loads, for all the empty bottles, and the cooking and gift detritus - and to dump the novelty rubber gloves trimmed with maribou and fake gemstones.
  This year, he's already signed on to design a sports beverage novelty product called Baby Bailers, which is being manufactured in Hong Kong.
  She designed a novelty cake using a scene from the Lord of the Rings film based on the novel of the same name by J.R. Tolkien for inspiration.
2A small and inexpensive toy or ornament.
小玩具，小饰品
he bought chocolate novelties to decorate the Christmas tree
他买了模样新奇的巧克力来装饰圣诞树。
Example sentencesExamples
- You can shop for novelties such as silver ornaments and local garments, while forgetting the madness of crowded department stores on Shanghai's Huaihai Lu.
- They sent 15 samples of toys, decorations and novelties to Worcester Scientific Services for testing.
- They weren't even on the seasonal novelty aisle.
- Ebay started in business by helping enthusiasts to swap novelty toys.
- Besides a Frisbee, the novelties they offered her included plastic rings, a shoe, a bucket, and a tin can.
- It had what looked like several antique ornaments and novelties on display.
- Will they come back again, or were they just buying a novelty item?
- The other three items were also children's novelty toys.
- Cheap, mass-produced plastic trinkets and novelties are the only treasures available to the vast numbers of the world's population.
- Graham came up the stairs to find me going all gooey over a bookshop novelty from America, containing a small garden gnome, a patch of artificial grass and a stand depicting a cottage garden.
Synonyms
knick-knack, trinket, bauble, toy, trifle, gewgaw, gimcrack, ornament, curiosity

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French novelte, from novel ‘new, fresh’ (see novel).

单词	novelty
释义	Definition of novelty in English: novelty nounPlural novelties ˈnɒv(ə)ltiˈnɑvəlti 1mass noun The quality of being new, original, or unusual. 新奇；新奇性；新颖；与众不同 the novelty of being a married woman wore off 作为一个已婚女子的新奇感逐渐消失了。 Example sentencesExamples That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans. Like Chris, they enjoy the novelty of having a hobby that is not mainstream. History shows that my novelty value tends to wear off within about two minutes. They seemed to enjoy the novelty of not having lots of things to do. Here is a brief quote from a much larger section of the book concerned with novelty and different paradigms of information-presentation. After the initial novelty wears off, the bonus rounds become quite predictable. It was he who coined the term ‘the Condition of England’ and it was he who pressed the English to come to terms with the modern urbanized and industrialized novelty of their condition. But opinion is often shaped by a modern preference for novelty. The novelty of the quality improvement approach was welcomed by patients and staff as a way to change the system. Beyond its chronological breadth and the relative novelty of its subject, this book has much to recommend it. Regardless, the VP was certainly excited by the sheer novelty of the experience. The cool temperatures and dampness of the cave doomed it to failure though and the novelty eventually wore off. The first is about the degree of novelty and difference represented by the current order, and is preoccupied by assessments of the elements of continuity and discontinuity within it. Distributing 7,500 garbage pails around Central Park with a teddy bear atop each might be as creative, if creativity is measured by novelty. They mistook novelty for originality, creativity, and competence. In the current rush for novelty and innovation, an artist such as Arikha is easily bypassed as old-fashioned or backward-looking, an anomaly. Tom said he started bringing a book to work to pass the time after the initial novelty wore off. With some annual vines, the appeal is sheer novelty. Perhaps many people are seduced by the sheer novelty or comedy of my appearance. But creativity means appearance of novelty, which by definition exists outside the confines of a deterministic universe. Synonyms originality, newness, freshness, unconventionality, unfamiliarity, unusualness, difference, imaginativeness, creativity, creativeness, innovativeness, innovation, modernity, modernness, break with tradition 1.1count noun A new or unfamiliar thing or experience. 新鲜事；不同寻常的经历 in 1914 air travel was still a novelty 1914年时乘飞机旅行还是件新鲜事。 Example sentencesExamples "It's fun, " said one participant in a recent seminar to introduce the latest novelty. Intel servers are a relative novelty at IBM, which until the late 1990s favoured its higher-end server families. When students make the transition from one school to the next, they experience the usual novelties associated with any advancement to the next grade, such as a more challenging curriculum. And he did it consistently, not on a whim as a novelty or diversion. Always veering towards the conservative and traditional, they dislike novelties, experimentation or quirky fads. One of the most fundamental problems in modern evolutionary biology is the origin of morphological novelty. Spanish football is experiencing a novelty: the successful export of some of its better footballers. This important knowledge will help to protect us against subtle heresy and fashionable novelties. A person's inherent need for sensation is not necessarily obvious in the early stages of a relationship, when love itself is a novelty and carries its own thrills. Casual sexual experiences are not a novelty for either of them (they have both had sex with other partners in the toilets of a particular pub, for example). The revised chapter on morphological novelties is superb. After ten years, she was still widely, if eccentrically, regarded as a fascinating novelty; a breath of fresh air. Failure of feeling is accompanied by a desire for ever more violent sensations, like those really bad love affairs; frequent novelties, spectator tragedies of the kind that TV and the media adore. I think the yellow hair and blue eyes were a real novelty for them. The novelties introduced by these elections were many, interesting, and ripe with consequences. Yet this area is crucial, as all evolutionary novelties ultimately arise from intraspecific variation. The pectoral girdle and forelimb also reveal suites of hierarchically nested morphological novelties supporting the theropod origin of birds. The Jerusalem artichoke at first had an enthusiastic reception in Europe, where its curious, sweet taste was a novelty. Heterochrony is often cited as a pathway for the appearance of evolutionary novelties. My companion had never eaten sushi before and found the whole experience a novelty. 1.2as modifier Denoting an object intended to be amusing as a result of its unusual design. 以其新奇吸引人的；意在以其新奇引人注意的 a novelty teapot 新奇茶壶。 Example sentencesExamples The company has had particular success with its innovative frozen novelties. She designed a novelty cake using a scene from the Lord of the Rings film based on the novel of the same name by J.R. Tolkien for inspiration. And it's certainly worth a listen, as most novelty songs are. Included are figure dancing, solo dancing, recitations, music and novelty acts. A plate rack held a variety of novelty teapots and a selection of mobiles occupied one corner of the room. Amazingly, the novelty record is outselling the rest of the singles chart twice over, and has sold three times as many copies as Coldplay - according to mid-week sales figures. His Uncle Milton Ant Farm rocked the novelty world when it was launched in 1956, and since then more than 20 million units have sold. I do, however, need to get rid of it pretty sharpish otherwise things could get rather messy: I seem to collect mortgages like some people collect novelty teapots. You are probably one of those students who uses novelty fonts in your designs because they look ‘cool.’ The winner of the novelty cake was Michelle Flatley, Moyview. Both reports had treated the group and the response of its fans as a mildly amusing novelty item. While the only thing it's actually revolutionized so far is the novelty items industry, it does deserve some credit as an impressive work of technology. The shift is designed to improve margins on the company's novelty products. Did you feel embarrassed eating an ice cream novelty shaped like a cartoon character? Dustbin bags: you'll need loads, for all the empty bottles, and the cooking and gift detritus - and to dump the novelty rubber gloves trimmed with maribou and fake gemstones. Firefighters are warning of the dangers of children mistaking novelty lighters for toys. He's either an amusing novelty act or just plain annoying. The fact is that frozen novelties are indeed hot and getting hotter by the minute. Too much Affordably Good Design made me want to go straight to a novelty shop in Devizes to buy a toby jug of a grinning trawlerman's head sporting a yellow sou'wester. This year, he's already signed on to design a sports beverage novelty product called Baby Bailers, which is being manufactured in Hong Kong. 2A small and inexpensive toy or ornament. 小玩具，小饰品 he bought chocolate novelties to decorate the Christmas tree 他买了模样新奇的巧克力来装饰圣诞树。 Example sentencesExamples Ebay started in business by helping enthusiasts to swap novelty toys. Graham came up the stairs to find me going all gooey over a bookshop novelty from America, containing a small garden gnome, a patch of artificial grass and a stand depicting a cottage garden. The other three items were also children's novelty toys. They sent 15 samples of toys, decorations and novelties to Worcester Scientific Services for testing. Besides a Frisbee, the novelties they offered her included plastic rings, a shoe, a bucket, and a tin can. You can shop for novelties such as silver ornaments and local garments, while forgetting the madness of crowded department stores on Shanghai's Huaihai Lu. Will they come back again, or were they just buying a novelty item? Cheap, mass-produced plastic trinkets and novelties are the only treasures available to the vast numbers of the world's population. They weren't even on the seasonal novelty aisle. It had what looked like several antique ornaments and novelties on display. Synonyms knick-knack, trinket, bauble, toy, trifle, gewgaw, gimcrack, ornament, curiosity memento, souvenir North American kickshaw archaic gaud, folderol Origin Late Middle English: from Old French novelte, from novel 'new, fresh' (see novel²). Definition of novelty in US English: novelty nounˈnɑvəltiˈnävəltē 1The quality of being new, original, or unusual. 新奇；新奇性；新颖；与众不同 the novelty of being a married woman wore off 作为一个已婚女子的新奇感逐渐消失了。 Example sentencesExamples They mistook novelty for originality, creativity, and competence. Perhaps many people are seduced by the sheer novelty or comedy of my appearance. They seemed to enjoy the novelty of not having lots of things to do. In the current rush for novelty and innovation, an artist such as Arikha is easily bypassed as old-fashioned or backward-looking, an anomaly. Distributing 7,500 garbage pails around Central Park with a teddy bear atop each might be as creative, if creativity is measured by novelty. Like Chris, they enjoy the novelty of having a hobby that is not mainstream. The first is about the degree of novelty and difference represented by the current order, and is preoccupied by assessments of the elements of continuity and discontinuity within it. Tom said he started bringing a book to work to pass the time after the initial novelty wore off. Regardless, the VP was certainly excited by the sheer novelty of the experience. With some annual vines, the appeal is sheer novelty. But opinion is often shaped by a modern preference for novelty. History shows that my novelty value tends to wear off within about two minutes. But creativity means appearance of novelty, which by definition exists outside the confines of a deterministic universe. The novelty of the quality improvement approach was welcomed by patients and staff as a way to change the system. The cool temperatures and dampness of the cave doomed it to failure though and the novelty eventually wore off. After the initial novelty wears off, the bonus rounds become quite predictable. Beyond its chronological breadth and the relative novelty of its subject, this book has much to recommend it. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans. Here is a brief quote from a much larger section of the book concerned with novelty and different paradigms of information-presentation. It was he who coined the term ‘the Condition of England’ and it was he who pressed the English to come to terms with the modern urbanized and industrialized novelty of their condition. Synonyms originality, newness, freshness, unconventionality, unfamiliarity, unusualness, difference, imaginativeness, creativity, creativeness, innovativeness, innovation, modernity, modernness, break with tradition 1.1 A new or unfamiliar thing or experience. 新鲜事；不同寻常的经历 in 1914 air travel was still a novelty 1914年时乘飞机旅行还是件新鲜事。 Example sentencesExamples Always veering towards the conservative and traditional, they dislike novelties, experimentation or quirky fads. And he did it consistently, not on a whim as a novelty or diversion. When students make the transition from one school to the next, they experience the usual novelties associated with any advancement to the next grade, such as a more challenging curriculum. My companion had never eaten sushi before and found the whole experience a novelty. One of the most fundamental problems in modern evolutionary biology is the origin of morphological novelty. Casual sexual experiences are not a novelty for either of them (they have both had sex with other partners in the toilets of a particular pub, for example). The revised chapter on morphological novelties is superb. After ten years, she was still widely, if eccentrically, regarded as a fascinating novelty; a breath of fresh air. Intel servers are a relative novelty at IBM, which until the late 1990s favoured its higher-end server families. "It's fun, " said one participant in a recent seminar to introduce the latest novelty. The novelties introduced by these elections were many, interesting, and ripe with consequences. This important knowledge will help to protect us against subtle heresy and fashionable novelties. Spanish football is experiencing a novelty: the successful export of some of its better footballers. Heterochrony is often cited as a pathway for the appearance of evolutionary novelties. I think the yellow hair and blue eyes were a real novelty for them. Yet this area is crucial, as all evolutionary novelties ultimately arise from intraspecific variation. A person's inherent need for sensation is not necessarily obvious in the early stages of a relationship, when love itself is a novelty and carries its own thrills. The pectoral girdle and forelimb also reveal suites of hierarchically nested morphological novelties supporting the theropod origin of birds. The Jerusalem artichoke at first had an enthusiastic reception in Europe, where its curious, sweet taste was a novelty. Failure of feeling is accompanied by a desire for ever more violent sensations, like those really bad love affairs; frequent novelties, spectator tragedies of the kind that TV and the media adore. 1.2as modifier Denoting something intended to be amusing as a result of its new or unusual quality. 以其新奇吸引人的；意在以其新奇引人注意的 a novelty teapot 新奇茶壶。 Example sentencesExamples Both reports had treated the group and the response of its fans as a mildly amusing novelty item. You are probably one of those students who uses novelty fonts in your designs because they look ‘cool.’ And it's certainly worth a listen, as most novelty songs are. Amazingly, the novelty record is outselling the rest of the singles chart twice over, and has sold three times as many copies as Coldplay - according to mid-week sales figures. Did you feel embarrassed eating an ice cream novelty shaped like a cartoon character? The company has had particular success with its innovative frozen novelties. While the only thing it's actually revolutionized so far is the novelty items industry, it does deserve some credit as an impressive work of technology. Included are figure dancing, solo dancing, recitations, music and novelty acts. A plate rack held a variety of novelty teapots and a selection of mobiles occupied one corner of the room. The winner of the novelty cake was Michelle Flatley, Moyview. His Uncle Milton Ant Farm rocked the novelty world when it was launched in 1956, and since then more than 20 million units have sold. Firefighters are warning of the dangers of children mistaking novelty lighters for toys. I do, however, need to get rid of it pretty sharpish otherwise things could get rather messy: I seem to collect mortgages like some people collect novelty teapots. Too much Affordably Good Design made me want to go straight to a novelty shop in Devizes to buy a toby jug of a grinning trawlerman's head sporting a yellow sou'wester. The fact is that frozen novelties are indeed hot and getting hotter by the minute. The shift is designed to improve margins on the company's novelty products. He's either an amusing novelty act or just plain annoying. Dustbin bags: you'll need loads, for all the empty bottles, and the cooking and gift detritus - and to dump the novelty rubber gloves trimmed with maribou and fake gemstones. This year, he's already signed on to design a sports beverage novelty product called Baby Bailers, which is being manufactured in Hong Kong. She designed a novelty cake using a scene from the Lord of the Rings film based on the novel of the same name by J.R. Tolkien for inspiration. 2A small and inexpensive toy or ornament. 小玩具，小饰品 he bought chocolate novelties to decorate the Christmas tree 他买了模样新奇的巧克力来装饰圣诞树。 Example sentencesExamples You can shop for novelties such as silver ornaments and local garments, while forgetting the madness of crowded department stores on Shanghai's Huaihai Lu. They sent 15 samples of toys, decorations and novelties to Worcester Scientific Services for testing. They weren't even on the seasonal novelty aisle. Ebay started in business by helping enthusiasts to swap novelty toys. Besides a Frisbee, the novelties they offered her included plastic rings, a shoe, a bucket, and a tin can. It had what looked like several antique ornaments and novelties on display. Will they come back again, or were they just buying a novelty item? The other three items were also children's novelty toys. Cheap, mass-produced plastic trinkets and novelties are the only treasures available to the vast numbers of the world's population. Graham came up the stairs to find me going all gooey over a bookshop novelty from America, containing a small garden gnome, a patch of artificial grass and a stand depicting a cottage garden. Synonyms knick-knack, trinket, bauble, toy, trifle, gewgaw, gimcrack, ornament, curiosity Origin Late Middle English: from Old French novelte, from novel ‘new, fresh’ (see novel).
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