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newness

noun
/ˈn(j)uːnəs/

Etymology

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

  1. inherited from nīewnes
  2. inherited from newnesse

Definitions

  1. The property of being new

    The property of being new; novelty; recency.

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for newness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA