novelty

Other forms of novelty

plural

novelties·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about novelty

What does novelty mean?

novelty means "originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in novelty?

novelty has 3 syllables: no-vel-ty. The stress falls on "no". In IPA it is /ˈnɑvəlti/.

What is another word for novelty?

Close synonyms include freshness, freshness, knickknack, bangle, bauble. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is novelty a common word?

novelty is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.