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Definition

new and original — typically something considered good

More commonly, novel is used as a noun to refer to work of fiction that is published as a book. In the form novelty, the word can refer to an inexpensive, mass-produced item of interest such as a toy, trinket, or item given away to advertise.

We're looking for novel marketing ideas.

novel = new and original

It is a novel idea and just might work.

novel = new and original

The computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem.

novel = new and original

The idea that she had a separate existence outside our household was a novel one, to say nothing of her having command of two languages.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

novel = new

She both fits in perfectly yet remains slightly novel.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake

novel = new and original

But enough of that for the present; let us go and see Master Pedro's show, for I am sure there must be something novel in it.
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote

novel = pleasantly new and original

If you think about the world of a preschooler, they are surrounded by stuff they don't understand — things that are novel.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point

novel = new and original

He remembered every detail of the previous day and he knew that a perfectly novel experience had befallen him, that he had received an impression unlike anything he had known before.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment

novel = pleasantly new and original

The novelty had worn off.
Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

novelty = quality of being new and therefore interesting

He relished the role and concocted novel, grueling training regimens that his teammates still remember well.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

novel = new (not previously seen)

Kit had no idea that her methods were novel and surprising.
Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond

novel = new

Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

novelty = newness

Not because he wanted to be forgiven for missing the meal—that didn't interest him at all, he might have rather enjoyed the punishment if it was done in some novel and unknown way.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

novel = new and original

I found the flint and struck it over the waiting tinder as I had seen Glaucos do so often, but never attempted myself. It took me several tries, and when the flames began to catch and spread at last, I felt a novel satisfaction.
Madeline Miller -- Circe

novel = pleasantly new and original

He sat for some time, meditatively frowning, then picked up his pen and wrote across the title-page: "The author's mathematical treatment of the conception of purpose is novel and highly ingenious, but heretical and, so far as the present social order is concerned, dangerous and potentially subversive."
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

novel = original

Some of the briefer articles, which contribute to make up the volume, have likewise been written since my involuntary withdrawal from the toils and honours of public life, and the remainder are gleaned from annuals and magazines, of such antique date, that they have gone round the circle, and come back to novelty again.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

novelty = quality of being new

Pierre was greatly surprised by his wife's view, to him a perfectly novel one, that every moment of his life belonged to her and to the family.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace

novel = new and original

The whole thing was so novel and surprising that the General was completely overcome with happiness.
Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

novel = pleasantly new and original

The night in prison was novel and interesting enough.
Henry David Thoreau -- Resistance to Civil Government

novel = new and original

Such meditation was a new thing for him, novel, sweet in a melancholy sort of way,
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger

novel = pleasantly new and original

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