Novelty
The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction.
Something novel; a new or strange thing.
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Novelty Quotations
America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
Will Rogers
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
Nicolaus Copernicus
The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
Marcel Proust
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
Baltasar Gracian
Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.
John Lasseter
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Carl Rogers
Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.
Shelby Foote
Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.
John Polkinghorne
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
Simone de Beauvoir
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Thomas Carlyle
Novelty Translations
novelty in Afrikaans is nuus
novelty in Danish is nyhed
novelty in Dutch is nieuwtje, nieuws, nieuwigheid
novelty in German is Neuheit
novelty in Latin is novitas, novus
novelty in Spanish is noticias, novedad
novelty in Swedish is nymodighet, nyhet
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