Unnewness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or condition of not being new; prior existence. uncountable

    "[…] not the novelty or originality of the findings but the basic unnewness of them."

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"[…] not the novelty or originality of the findings but the basic unnewness of them."

Etymology

From un- + new + -ness.

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