novity

Meaning

Noun

• An innovation; a novelty.
• Novelty; newness.

Origin

• Inherited from the Middle English novite ("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.