NEWNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does newness mean? 

• NEWNESS (noun)
  The noun NEWNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being new; the opposite of oldness

  Familiarity information: NEWNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEWNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being new; the opposite of oldness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("newness" is a kind of...):

age (how long something has existed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "newness"):

brand-newness (the property of being very new)

freshness (the property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made); not stale or deteriorated)

recency; recentness (the property of having happened or appeared not long ago)

Antonym:

oldness (the quality of being old; the opposite of newness)

Derivation:

new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)

 Context examples 

It was made, however, at last: a silver knife was bought for Betsey, and accepted with great delight, its newness giving it every advantage over the other that could be desired; Susan was established in the full possession of her own, Betsey handsomely declaring that now she had got one so much prettier herself, she should never want that again; and no reproach seemed conveyed to the equally satisfied mother, which Fanny had almost feared to be impossible.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

With the assistance of his mother-in-law, Sir John was not long in discovering that the name of Ferrars began with an F. and this prepared a future mine of raillery against the devoted Elinor, which nothing but the newness of their acquaintance with Edward could have prevented from being immediately sprung.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)