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Variety vs Novelty - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between variety and novelty

is that variety is the quality of being varied; diversity while novelty is the state of being new or novel; newness.

variety

English

Alternative forms

* (rare)

Noun

(varieties)
  • The quality of being varied; diversity.
  • A specific variation of something.
  • A number of different things.
  • *
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  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01, author=Katie L. Burke, volume=101, issue=1, page=64, magazine=(American Scientist)
    • , title= Ecological Dependency , passage=In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.}}
  • A state of constant change.
  • (taxonomy) A rank in a taxonomic classification, below species and subspecies.
  • (cybernetics) The total number of distinct states of a system.
  • (cybernetics) Logarithm of the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
  • (linguistics) A term used for a specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is a dialect, accent, register, etc. and to its prestige level.
  • The class of all algebraic structures of a given signature satisfying a given set of identities.

    • Synonyms

    * equational variety

    Hyponyms

    * cultivar

    Derived terms

    * Abelian variety * antivariety * grape variety * variety store * variety show * algebraic variety * affine variety * projective variety * quasiprojective variety * quasivariety

    Related terms

    * variant * variation * varietal * variegate * various * vary

    See also

    * species * information entropy

    External links

    * *

    novelty

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia novelty)
  • The state of being new or novel; newness.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=May 24 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3 , work=The Onion AV Club citation , page= , passage=Men In Black 3 lacks the novelty of the first film, and its take on the late ’60s feels an awful lot like a psychedelic dress-up party, all broad caricatures and groovy vibes.}}
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * novelty song * novelty theory