Newness

//ˈn(j)uːnəs// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The property of being new; novelty; recency. countable, uncountable

    "The newness of the car meant it still had that funny smell."

  2. 2
    the quality of being new; the opposite of oldness wordnet

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authenticitycontemporaneitycontemporaneousnesscreativenesscreativityfreshness

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"Indeed the Church has spoken and prayed in the languages of all peoples since Pentecost. Nevertheless, the Christian communities of the early centuries made frequent use of Greek and Latin, languages of universal communication in the world in which they lived and through which the newness of Christ’s word encountered the heritage of the Roman-Hellenistic culture."

Etymology

From Middle English newnesse, from Old English nīewnes (“newness, novelty”), equivalent to new + -ness.

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