Noun

(wikipedia novelty)

The state of being new or novel; newness.

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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 .

A small mass-produced trinket.

In novelty theory, newness, density of complexification, and dynamic change as opposed to static habituation.

Noun

(en noun)

One of the aristocracy, nobility, or people of rank in a community; one of a ruling class; a noble (originally in Revolutionary France).

A proponent of aristocracy; an advocate of aristocratic government.

* 1974 : (2nd edition, revised; Penguin Classics; ISBN 0140440488), Translator’s Introduction, pages 51 and 53:

Professor Fite, in The Platonic Legend , deprecates earlier idealization, and finds Plato to be an aristocrat , something of a snob, and the advocate of a restrictively organized society.

Plato was, as has so often been observed, temperamentally an aristocrat . And he believed that the qualities needed in his rulers were, in general, hereditary, and that given knowledge and opportunity you could deliberately breed for them.