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novum

noun

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin novum.

  1. borrowed from novum

Definitions

  1. A new feature, a novelty.

    • we find among the cultured devotees a tendency to idealize a foreign civilisation — a novum in Chinese history.

  2. An innovation which is fictional, but, following the logic of cognitive estrangement…

    An innovation which is fictional, but, following the logic of cognitive estrangement (characteristic of science fiction), is afforded plausibility by the assumption that the fictional setting is scientifically consistent.

  3. A game of dice, properly called novem quinque, the two principal throws being nine and…

    A game of dice, properly called novem quinque, the two principal throws being nine and five.

    • Abate throw at novum, and the whole world again Cannot pick out five such, take each one in his vein.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for novum. 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