Word of the Day:
novity
What It Means
An innovation; a novelty.
Novelty; newness.
1460, “Dublin documents” quoted by John Thomas Gilbert in Calendar of the Ancient Records of Dublin (1889), volume 1, page 307
Novity in Context
“The ‘Jesus freaks’ and other extravagant novities of American religious life.”
Did You Know?
Inherited from the Middle English novitē (“an innovative practice”), borrowed from Middle French novité (“novelty, change, innovation”), from the Latin novitās (“newness, novelty; rareness, strangeness; newness of rank; reformation”); cognate with the Italian novità, the Portuguese novidade, the Romanian noutate, and the Spanish novedad.
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