different between novelty vs boldness

English

Etymology

From Middle English novelte, from Old French novelté (Modern French nouveauté), from the adjective novel, ultimately from Latin novellus.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?v?lti/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?v?lti/
• Hyphenation: nov?el?ty

Noun

novelty (countable and uncountable, plural novelties)

1. The state of being new or novel; newness.
2. A new product; an innovation.
   • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 10.

     Reconciling profound enquiry with clearness, and truth with novelty.

3. A small mass-produced trinket.
4. In novelty theory, newness, density of complexification, and dynamic change as opposed to static habituation.

Derived terms

• novelty song
• novelty theory

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English boldnesse, equivalent to bold +? -ness. Cognate with Scots baldness, bauldness (“boldness”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bo?ldn?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b??ldn?s/
• Hyphenation: bold?ness

Noun

boldness (usually uncountable, plural boldnesses)

1. The state of being bold; courage.
   • 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill

     Then he warmed to it, and smoothly set out all his shifts, malices, and treacheries, his extreme boldnesses (he was desperate bold); his retreats, shufflings, and counterfeitings (he was also inconceivably a coward) […]

2. presumptuousness
3. (typography) The relative weight of a font; the thickness of its strokes.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:courage

Translations

Anagrams

• bondless