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novelty
  1. The state of being new or novel; newness.
  2. A new product; an innovation.
  3. A small mass-produced trinket.
  4. In novelty theory, newness, density of complexification, and dynamic change as opposed to static habituation.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “A number of researchers have argued effectively for diversity, variety, and novelty in the design and structure of classroom tasks.”
      “It was a classic good guys versus bad guys story with a lot of kung fu fighting, which was a novelty at the time.”
      “The little built-in hammer is a quaint little novelty that no other manufacturer saw a need to duplicate.”
novel
  1. (obsolete) A novelty; something new. [15th-18th c.]
  2. (now historical) A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work. [from 16th c.]
  3. A work of prose fiction, longer than a novella. [from 17th c.]
  4. (classical studies, historical) A new legal constitution in ancient Rome. [from 17th c.]
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  6. Examples:
    1. “His novel is based on historical occurrences, but it blurs the line between fact and fiction.”
novelization
  1. The writing of a novel based on fact; fictionalization.
  2. A text novel that is an adaptation of a story from a visual medium such as film.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Be aware that Max Collins has also done a non-graphic novelization of the movie.”
      “Inside, the magazine featured a novelization of Warner Brothers' new film Captains of the Clouds, starring James Cagney.”
      “Such scenes, also present in the novelization, were probably not filmed by Milius.”
novelist
  1. An author of novels.
  2. (obsolete) An innovator; one who introduces something new; one who favours novelty.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He has claimed that he never wanted to be a novelist despite the fact the he has published so many books.”
      “Peter Bowles as Judith's novelist husband best catches the acidulous tone of Coward's comedy of bad manners.”
      “He is a novelist and an Arabist whose scholarship leads him into intriguing discussions.”
novelism
  1. (uncountable, literature) The dominance of the novel as a literary form.
  2. (obsolete) innovation
novelette
  1. A short novel. [from 18th c.]
  2. A short piece of lyrical music, especially one for the piano.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “You will be pleased to hear my novelette has been a success with the publishers.”
      “The first of these, published in 1846, bore the title of a featured novelette, Aunt Patty's Scrap Bag.”
      “Ayn Rand wrote three novels, at least seven nonfiction books, a novelette and two plays.”
novelese
  1. A style of writing characteristic of bad-quality novels.
novella
  1. A short novel or long short story.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Few writers move so effortlessly from the gothic tale to the psychological thriller to the epic family saga to the lyrical novella.”
      “His first novella, Shopgirl, received solid reviews when it was published two years ago.”
      “This is an amazing, and amazingly depressing, novella of the rise and fall of an alien society around a shifting religious myth.”
novelisation
  1. Alternative spelling of novelization
  2. Examples:
    1. “This movie adaptation of the TV adaptation of the novelisation of the radio series is about as faithful as you can get.”
      “What should have been a fascinating novelisation of Konstantin's life is, however, a slow, drab, story.”
      “This is the original novelisation by pulp writer Delos Lovelace, and oozes Hollywood-class horror.”
novelettist
noveliser
  1. Alternative form of novelizer
novelizer
  1. One who novelizes.
novelness
  1. Quality of being novel.
noveldom
  1. The sphere of novels
  2. Examples:
    1. “Written by and for a myopic, microscopical insomniac, it's a babeldom that puts all noveldom in the shade, that puts culture, with a sardonic laugh, in a cul-de-sac.”
novelle
  1. plural of novella but only in the sense of a compact story.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The right novel is never a congeries of novelle, as might appear to the uninspired.”
      “Their conversation as reported in the fabliaux and novelle was disquietingly frank.”
      “And these novelle became, as is generally known, common in English translations after the middle of the sixteenth century.”
novelisations
  1. plural of novelisation
novelizations
  1. plural of novelization
novelettists
  1. plural of novelettist
novelettes
  1. plural of novelette
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  3. Examples:
    1. “There was a time when only a section of the women population were addicted to the novelettes churned out by several scintillating weeklies.”
      “Drawing on these experiences, Webb's novelettes focus on the leisure-time activities of upper-class society in London, Paris, and Cannes.”
      “She gave him a hunk of nuncheon and a bundle of her novelettes, and he stole up to an empty garret and squatted on the bare boards.”
novelisers
  1. plural of noveliser
novelizers
  1. plural of novelizer
novelisms
  1. plural of novelism
novelists
  1. plural of novelist
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  3. Examples:
    1. “These wordsmiths include poets, novelists, literary critics, newspaper and magazine journalists, and many professors.”
      “That's a method you normally associate with novelists and prose writers rather than comics.”
      “The Jones's wanted their daughter to be well-read in the European tradition of Shakespeare, Milton, and other major novelists and poets.”
novellas
  1. plural of novella
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In the last 25 years, he's published more than three dozen short stories, as well as a dozen novellas and novels.”
      “Both novellas have as their focus a sphinx-like ' femme fatale ' who destroys a lover or a husband attached to her like a slave.”
      “The difference between these two novellas is the difference between aestheticist despair and messianic hope.”
novelties
  1. plural of novelty
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The popularisation of orange juice, sold at a kiosk at Flinders Street Station, was one of his novelties.”
      “As a cook, he may be a little too fond of traditional English ingredients like suet and American novelties like puffed wheat and canned corn.”
      “Wovens are available in base cloths, novelties, stretch poplins and twills.”
novels
  1. plural of novel
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  3. Examples:
    1. “And so I started switching from these endless derivative novels to trying to write parts for actors, and I've been doing so ever since.”
      “As if his novels weren't enough, he went on to publish his very own prison diary after doing porridge in London's Belmarsh jail.”
      “Similar expressions of libertarian ideals in Heinlein's juvenilia and other SF novels did leave their mark, though.”
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