novity
/ˈnɑvɪti/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1460, “Dublin documents” quoted by John Thomas Gilbert in Calendar of the Ancient Records of Dublin (1889), volume 1, page 307"
- "The ‘Jesus freaks’ and other extravagant novities of American religious life."
- "With a nouitee or straungnesse full of trifles."
- "That unmeaning assumption of eternal novity."
Etymology
Inherited from the Middle English novitē (“an innovative practice”), borrowed from Middle French novité (“novelty, change, innovation”), from the Latin novitās (“newness, novelty; rareness, strangeness; newness of rank; reformation”); cognate with the Italian novità, the Portuguese novidade, the Romanian noutate, and the Spanish novedad.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈnɑvɪti/
- British English: /ˈnɒvɪtɪ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
novities (plural)
novitee (alternative)
nouite (alternative)
nouitee (alternative)
novite (alternative)
nouitie (alternative)
novitie (alternative)
nouity (alternative)