novelty

novelty
n
1. uniqueness, difference, unusualness, uncommonness; rarity, rareness, specialty, specialness; distinctive feature, variation, variance, variety; oddity, peculiarity, strangeness, unfamiliarity, outlandishness, unorthodoxy; originality, freshness, newness, novelness, newfangledness.
2. innovation, change, alteration, transformation, new measure, Rare. novation, modernism, Inf. new or latest wrinkle, Inf. newfangled idea or contraption, Inf. latest thing, Fr. dernier cri, Inf. the last word, Inf. what's in, Inf. the in thing; fad, craze, rage; new notion, restyling, recasting, remodeling, renovation, modernization; coining, neoterism, neology, neologism; Inf. something else, Inf. something else again, Inf. another kettle of fish.
3. gimmick, doodad, gimcrack, latest fad, flash-in-the-pan, overnight sensation; whim-wham, trinket, knickknack, trifle, kickshaw, brummagen, toy, plaything; gadget, contrivance, device, invention, creation; All Inf. contraption, whachamacallit, thingumajig, thingumabob, doohickey, do-hinkey, gismo, crackerjack prize.

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