Novelty (disambiguation)
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Novelty is the characteristic of being new or heretofore unseen. It may also refer to:
- Novelty seeking, psychological stance
- Novelty effect, tendency for human performance to briefly improve simply due to the increased interest in new technology rather than due to the technology itself
- Novelty (patent), part of the legal test to determine whether an invention is patentable
- Apomorphy, evolutionary novelty, a characteristic that is different from the form of an ancestor
- Novelty in scientific naming relating to newly discovered taxa (e.g. new species - sp. nov ) or new names (nomina nova)
Arts
- Novelty (album) by Jawbox
- Novelty dance, a type of dance that is popular for being unusual or humorous
- Novelty song, a musical item that capitalizes on something new, unusual, or a current fad
- Novelty architecture, a building or other structure that is interesting because it has an amusing design
