newness

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

Recent occurrence

Nouns

1. newness, recentness, currency, freshness, greenness, novelty, immaturity, youth; innovation, renovation; neoism, neologism, language pollution; update; new blood; invention. See present, restoration.

2. modernism, modernity; latest fashion, latest thing, last word, cutting or leading edge, new wave, radical chic; mushroom, nouveau riche, upstart, parvenu. Slang, salt-water Negro.

Verbs — renew, restore, modernize, renovate, remodel, reinvent the wheel, retrofit.

Adjectives

1. new, novel, recent, fresh, green, young, evergreen, raw, crisp, immature, virgin, untried, not dry behind the ears; untrodden, unbeaten.

2. late, modern, current, neoteric, new-fashioned, newfangled, just out, up to the minute, cutting or leading edge, technotronic, brand-new, vernal, renovated, fresh as a daisy, up-to-date, state-of-the-art, abreast of the times; jet or space age; hot off the press, first run, new off the irons; a-gogo.

Adverbs — newly, freshly, afresh, anew, lately, just now, only yesterday, latterly, of late, not long ago, a short time ago.

Phrases — the best thing since sliced bread; a new broom sweeps clean; there is nothing new under the sun; you can't put new wine in old bottles.

Quotations — Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought (Albert von Szent-Györgyi), Nothing has yet been said that's not been said before (Terence), What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before (Mark Twain), We stand today at the edge of a new frontier (J. F. Kennedy).

Antonyms, See oldness.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. originality, uniqueness, modernity, innovation, recentness; see also novelty 1 .

III

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun The quality of being novel: freshness, innova-tiveness, newfangledness, novelty, originality. See NEW.