newness

English

Etymology

From Middle English newnesse, from Old English nīewnes (“newness, novelty”), equivalent to new +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈn(j)uːnəs/

• Audio (US):

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  Rhymes: -uːnəs

Noun

newness (countable and uncountable, plural newnesses)

1. The property of being new; novelty; recency.

   The newness of the car meant it still had that funny smell.

   • 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:

     Surprised and rejoiced thus far at the unanticipated newness, and the sweet lucidness and simplicity of Isabel’s narrating, […] Pierre now, in handing the instrument to Isabel, could not entirely restrain something like a look of half-regret, accompanied rather strangely with a half-smile of gentle humor.

   • 2025 November 25, Caroline Siede, “Zootopia 2 is a stagnant sequel with one stellar subplot”, in AV Club‎^[1]:

     Thankfully, that sense of newness does come in the form of Ke Huy Quan’s Gary De’Snake, the first reptilian addition to Zootopia‘s all-mammal cast.

Related terms

• brand-newness

Translations

novelty

• Armenian: նորություն (hy) (norutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: новост (bg) f (novost)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: nieuwheid (nl) f
• Finnish: uutuus (fi)
• French: nouveauté (fr) f
• German: Neuheit (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌾𐌹𐌸𐌰 f (niujiþa)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: νεότης f (neótēs)

• Hindi: नवीनता (hi) f (navīntā), नयापन (hi) m (nayāpan), नूतनता (hi) f (nūtantā)
• Irish: nua m, núíosacht f, úire f, úrmhaire f
• Italian: novità (it) f
• Latin: novitās f
• Latvian: jaunums m
• Old English: nīewnes f
• Persian: نویی (noyi)
• Polish: nowość (pl) f
• Portuguese: novidade (pt) f
• Romanian: noutate (ro)
• Russian: новизна́ (ru) f (novizná), новь (ru) f (novʹ)
• Spanish: novedad (es) f
• Tamil: புதுமை (ta) (putumai)
• Telugu: కొత్తదనం (kottadanaṁ)
• Turkish: yenilik (tr)

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