novelty
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4.7
- noun
- /ˈnɑːvəlti/
- And so we seek out variety or novelty, and we avoid uncertainty.
- novelty wears off
- introduce novelty
- novelty and excitement
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Watch on YouTubeAnd you need novelty and you hate routine.
- And you need novelty and you hate routine.
- Alfredorth Whitehead talks about novelty as something that appears.
- You need, yeah, you need a source of novelty, of unfakeable novelty.
- Our brains, they get bored, they need novelty, they don't like predictability.
- They call it variety or novelty or excitement.
- It's hard to overstate the novelty of Professor Nadazan's study.
- And so we seek out variety or novelty, and we avoid uncertainty.
- And purpose kind of evolves as a product of exploring, novelty and adventure.
- One great example of of this is the novelty search.
- So low risk, low cost, pursuit of sexual variety, sexual novelty as a key motivation for men.
- But I just don't think that novelty generation is such a special.
- So the novelty and the the novelty and variety, it dwindles.
Examples
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And we tend to like novelty, but only in certain in certain doses.
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It's hard to overstate the novelty of Professor Nadazan's study.
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But in reality, I think the novelty may wear off.
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Kind of lost its novelty out here.
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And you need novelty and you hate routine.
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Now this will be quite a novelty for you, Mick.
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Sensation seeking is defined as the desire to seek novelty and take risks.
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The first characteristic is novelty, and most definitions of creativity start here.
Academic text (2008) -
Divergent thinkers like to follow the novelty of an idea and see where it leads.
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The children were excited by the novelty of the new playground equipment.
Synonyms
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3.9
Bringing in new ideas or ways of doing things
30
4.5
A quality of being new and different in ideas and not copied from others
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4.1
Being the only one of its kind
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1.9
A thing that has not been seen or used before
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2.5
The quality of being new and original
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7.7
Being very different from other people or things
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6.0
A quality that makes someone or something stand out from others
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7.5
Doing things in a new or unusual way
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6.7
Thinking of new ideas and using new ways to do things
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5.6
Being clearly different from others
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7.7
A quality of being very different or much better than normal
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8.8
The state of something that has never happened before
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Etymology
Novelty comes from the Latin root novus meaning 'new' and the same root appears in novice. So a novelty is the 'newness' or fresh, original quality that makes something interesting.