• Arabic:
• Chinese: 新奇 (xīnqí)
• Dutch: nieuwigheid
• Finnish: uutuus
• French: nouveauté
• German: Neuheit
• Hungarian: újszerűség, újdonság
• Italian: novità
• Japanese: 珍しさ (めずらしさ, mezurashisa)
• Korean: 신기함 (sin-giham)
• Portuguese: novidade
• Russian: новизна (novizná)
• Spanish: novedad
• Swedish: ovanlighet

• French: nouveauté
• German: Neuheit
• Portuguese: novidade
• Spanish: novedad

Derived terms

• novelty theory

Novelty is the quality of being new. Although it may be said to have an objective dimension (e.g. a new style of art coming into being, such as abstract art or impressionism) it essentially exists in the subjective perceptions of individuals. It also refers to something novel; that which is striking, original or unusual.

Novelty can refer to:

• Novelties, small manufactured adornments; similarly novelty item, a toy or collectible
  • Promotional item, novelties used in promotional marketing.
• Novelty (locomotive), one of the first steam locomotives which was due to compete at the Rainhill Trials of 1829
• Novelty (patent), part of the legal test to determine whether an invention is patentable
• Novelty, Missouri, a place in the United States
• Novelty dance, a type of dance that is popular for being unusual or humorous
• Novelty song, a musical item that capitalizes on something new, unusual, or a current fad
• Novelty show, a competition or display in which exhibits or specimens are in way some novel
• Novelty architecture, a building or other structure that is interesting because it has an amusing design
• Novelty effect, the tendency for performance to initially improve when new technology is instituted
• Novelty theory, an eschatological theory promoted by Terence McKenna
• Novelty, a chess term for a move in chess which has never been played before in a recorded game
• Novelty (album) by Jawbox
• The Novelty, a piano-rock band from Poughkeepsie, NY.

Novelty is also an often used name for Russell Township in Ohio.

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