Novelty
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Template:Wiktionarypar Novelty is the quality of being new. Although it may be said to have an objective dimension (e.g. a new style of art coming into being, such as abstract or impressionism) it essentially exists in the subjective perceptions of individuals. It also refers to something novel; that which is striking, original or unusual.
Novelty can refer to:
- Novelties, small manufactured adornments; similarly novelty item, a toy or collectible
- Novelty, one of the first steam locomotives which was due to compete at the Rainhill Trials of 1829
- Novelty, part of the legal test to determine whether an invention is patentable
- Novelty, Missouri, a place in the United States
- Novelty dance, a type of dance that is popular for being unusual or humorous
- Novelty record, a musical album that capitalizes on something new, unusual, or a current fad
- Novelty show, a competition or display in which exhibits or specimens are in way some novel
- Novelty song, a song that capitalizes on something new, unusual, or is otherwise hard to categorize
- Novelty architecture, a building or other structure that is interesting because it has an amusing design
- Novelty theory, an eschatological theory promoted by Terrence McKenna
- Novelty, a chess term for a move in chess which has never been played before in a recorded game