Word.ws English Dictionary

unnewness

unnewness noun: the state or condition of not being new; prior existence.

Noun

unnewness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of not being new; prior existence.
    • […] not the novelty or originality of the findings but the basic unnewness of them.2023, Geoff Mungham, Geoff Pearson, Working Class Youth Culture, page 1959

Origin of unnewness

From un- + new + -ness.

Questions about unnewness

What does unnewness mean?
Unnewness means the state or condition of not being new; prior existence.
What part of speech is unnewness?
Unnewness is a noun.

Words near unnewness in the dictionary

  1. unneutralised
  2. unneutrality
  3. unneutralized
  4. unneutrally
  5. unnew
  6. unnewness
  7. unnews
  8. unnewsworthiness
  9. unnewsworthy
  10. unni
  11. unnibbed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unnewness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unnewness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unnewness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.