| Main Entry: | newness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | originality |
Synonyms: |
innovation, modernity, novelty, recentness, uniqueness |
| Concept: | Newness. |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession |
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-nouns
newness; novelty, recency; immaturity; youth; gloss of novelty., innovation; renovation (restoration)., modernism; mushroom, parvenu; latest fashion.
-verbs
renew (restore); modernize.
-adjectives
new, novel, recent, fresh, green; young; evergreen; raw, immature; virgin; untried, unhandseled, untrodden, unbeaten; fire-new, span-new., late, modern, neoteric, hypermodern, nouveau; newborn, nascent, neonatal [med.], new-fashioned, new-fangled, new-fledged; of yesterday; just out, brand-new, up to date, up to the minute, with it, fashionable, in fashion; in, hip [coll.]; vernal, renovated, sempervirent, sempervirid., fresh as a rose, fresh as a daisy, fresh as paint; spick and span.
-adverbs
newly; afresh, anew, lately, just now, only yesterday, the other day; latterly, of late., not long ago, a short time ago.
-phrases
di novello tutto par bello; nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum est prius ["Nothing is said now that was not said before" (Latin)]; una scopa nuova spazza bene ["A new
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Antonyms: |
oldness |
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| Main Entry: | innovation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, novelty |
Synonyms: |
addition, alteration, contraption, cutting edge*, departure, deviation, introduction, last word, latest thing, leading edge, modernism, modernization, modification, mutation, newness, notion, permutation, shift, variation, vicissitude, wrinkle |
Antonyms: |
custom, habit, old, old hat, rut, tradition |
| Main Entry: | originality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creativeness |
Synonyms: |
boldness, brilliance, cleverness, creative spirit, creativity, daring, freshness, imagination, imaginativeness, individuality, ingeniousness, ingenuity, innovation, innovativeness, invention, inventiveness, modernity, new idea, newness, nonconformity, novelty, resourcefulness, spirit, unconventionality, unorthodoxy |
Antonyms: |
orthodoxy |
| Main Entry: | strangeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unfamiliarity |
Synonyms: |
abnormality, bizarreness, eccentricity, esotericism, esoterism, exoticism, fantasticality, foreignness, indescribability, newness, novelty, oddity, unconventionality, weirdness |
Antonyms: |
conventionality, familiarity, normalcy, normality, usualness |
| Main Entry: | greenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inexperience |
Synonyms: |
amateur, callowness, ignorance, immaturity, ineptness, inexpertness, innocence, newness, rawness, youth |
| Main Entry: | innovativeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | novelty |
Synonyms: |
change, crazy*, creation, dernier cri, freshness, innovation, last word, modernity, mutation, newfangled contraption, newfangledness, newness, oddball, oddity, original, originality, origination, permutation, recentness, sport*, strangeness, surprise, unfamiliarity, uniqueness, vicissitude, weird* |
| Main Entry: | newfangledness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | novelty |
Synonyms: |
change, crazy*, creation, dernier cri, freshness, innovation, innovativeness, last word, modernity, mutation, newfangled contraption, newness, oddball, oddity, original, originality, origination, permutation, recentness, sport*, strangeness, surprise, unfamiliarity, uniqueness, vicissitude, weird* |
| Main Entry: | greenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Main Entry: | originality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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inimitable, original, sui generis, uncopied, unfellowed, unimitated, unique, unmatched, unparalleled
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