(n.) The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction.
(n.) Something novel; a new or strange thing.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is also, despite recent changes, an absolute monarchy where local elections are a novelty and women are still officially banned from driving.
(2) Novelty, as represented by a change in female partner or by a change in environment, has not increased sexual performance in old rhesus males.
(3) Novelty and immobilization induced a slight but significant increase in OT levels in the CSF immediately after the stress.
(4) The [14C]2-deoxy-glucose (2-DG) autoradiographic technique revealed that movement and novelty of a visual display affected rat visual system metabolic activity.
(5) For some of the pupils, that in itself was a novelty, including those from homes without a table to dine on, or in some cases a family to eat with.
(6) The results revealed a significant novelty preference in the two-, four- and eight-day habituation groups.
(7) Three independent dimensions of personality are defined and related to heritable variation in patterns of response to specific types of environmental stimuli: 'novelty seeking' is due to a heritable tendency toward frequent exploratory activity and intense excitement in response to novel stimuli; 'harm avoidance' is due to a heritable tendency to respond intensely to aversive stimuli and to learn to avoid punishment, novelty, and non-reward passively; and 'reward dependence' is due to a heritable tendency to respond intensely to reward and succorance and to learn to maintain rewarded behavior.
(8) For the preterms, novelty and exposure-time scores were found to be related to several medical risk factors.
(9) Diazepam and muscimol, a direct GABA agonist, were compared on behavioral inhibition induced in rats by (1) novelty, (2) punishment, and (3) nonreward.
(10) Data on vocal output of 51 preterm infants and 16 term infants were obtained during naturalistic home observations at 1, 3, and 8 months; during the administration of a preference-for-novelty paradigm in the laboratory at 8 months; and by the administration of the Gesell Developmental Schedules at 9 months.
(11) Instead, they habituated to the novelty of the runway, as grooming and sitting still replaced investigation.
(12) Infant care by multiple females and by males was observed and the conservative nature of mangabey responses to novelty noted.
(13) Pretest exposure to novelty or injections of beta-endorphin can enhance passive avoidance (PA) retention (e.g., Izquierdo & McGaugh, 1985).
(14) What has been lost in the excitement are the biological issues that relate to the rapid emergence of phenotypic novelties.
(15) At the same time, Danielle and Este were instructed not to leave Holland without checking out Amsterdam's novelty museum, the Heineken Experience.
(16) A confirmatory factor analysis of the TPQ failed to replicate the three proposed factors of novelty seeking, harm avoidance and reward dependence.
(17) Two experiments were carried out to study the effect of prior knowledge on cognitive processes related to human intelligence by examining its role in defining task novelty.
(18) I mean, it was a novelty in South Shields to see a little boy in full make-up dancing on pointe.
(19) The results suggest that CCK-5-8 can amplify the arousal enhancement elicited by novelty through a central mechanism.
(20) In a country addicted to novelty and invention, he was proceeding to supply an instant lore of allegory, myth and fable.
Vogue
Definition:
(n.) The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom, or practice; popular reception for the time; -- used now generally in the phrase in vogue.
(n.) Influence; power; sway.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Rex Features 'Voga' Vogueing + yoga, apparently.
(2) When Guillem was approached by French Vogue to be photographed seven years ago she was presented with a clutch of the world's best fashion photographers to choose from.
(3) Compare her with Megan Draper, who is in a minidress too, but one that is several inches shorter and boasts the swirling lava-lamp prints that may have been seen in Vogue at the time.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Global trade unions called the collapse ‘mass industrial homicide’, while Vogue magazine described it as ‘tragedy on an epic scale’.
(5) Certain terminologies in vogue add further to the confusion.
(6) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(7) With her first book, Girl Online, due out in November and an audience estimated to be 26 times that of the circulation of British Vogue, Zoella is a key example of what the advertising world call a “crowdsourced people’s champion” – one who earns hundreds of thousands of pounds a year and is paid by brands such as Unilever to connect with the ever-elusive 18-30 demographic.
(8) Surely this is the only possible reaction to the October issue of French Vogue in which the 25-year-old Dutch Model Lara Stone has been blacked up.
(9) 8-Methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) (currently in vogue for the treatment of psoriasis) is a well-known photosensitizing agent.
(10) The ready recourse to these grafts, so much in vogue at the present time in primary rhinoplasties, should be carefully and completely re-examined, since the final result very frequently yields no real benefits and may permanently deface the area from which the cartilage has been taken.
(11) The following day, politicians and eurocrats began scrambling to hammer out a larger rescue package for Greece: 28 April 2010 Photograph: Guardian That was the time when puns about Acropolis Now, and ‘making a drachma out of a crisis’ were in vogue: Greek debt crisis, 28 April 2010 Photograph: Guardian But there wasn’t much time for jokes.
(12) Despite the vogue for conservatism, circumcision still has an important part to play in the management of troublesome foreskins in children.
(13) In a 1962 issue of Vogue, Siriol Hugh-Jones, the magazine's former features editor, unleashed a tirade of abuse on that triumvirate of women writers: Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark and Lessing.
(14) Her latest, a New York Times bestseller that began life as a Vogue piece, is a frank exploration of ageing in a society that prizes youth.
(15) I was flicking through a copy of this month's Vogue and there's Kate Moss topless.
(16) Luxury shopping online clearly plays a part in this, and is evolving again – editorial content is in demand (Style.com's print magazine will be followed by Net-a-porter's for spring ), and sites including Moda Operandi , set up by ex-American Vogue staffers, have introduced the idea of pre-ordering pieces from the catwalk.
(17) It’s a great place to come from,” she said in an interview with Vogue in September.
(18) It's Barcelona versus Arsenal at what I now feel obliged by the current vogue to refer to as the "Camp Now".
(19) The Soil Association is due to release a report soon that will confirm that organic came back into vogue with consumers in 2013.
(20) In the latest Vogue, Susie Forbes, principal at the Condé Nast College of Fashion and Design, enthuses about her treadmill desk, a refinement of the stand-up-sit-down desks (the height can be raised or lowered) now fashionable.