The quality of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction.Unaccustomedness; strangeness; novel or unusual character or appearance: as, the novelty of one's surroundings.Something new or strange; a novel thing: as, to hunt after novelties.Especially A new article of trade; an article of novel design or new use.An innovation.In patent law, the quality of being sub-stantially different from any previous invention.