Roget's Thesaurus: Entry 123 (Newness)

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#123. Newness. -- N. newness &c. adj.; novelty, recency; immaturity; youth &c. 127; gloss of novelty.

innovation; renovation &c. (restoration) 660.

modernism; mushroom, parvenu; latest fashion.

V. renew &c. (restore) 660; modernize.

Adj. new, novel, recent, fresh, green; young &c. 127; evergreen; raw, immature, unsettled, yeasty; virgin; untried, unhandseled[obs], untrodden, untrod, unbeaten; fire-new, span-new.

late, modern, neoteric, hypermodern, nouveau; new-born, nascent, neonatal[med.], new-fashioned, new-fangled, new-fledged; of yesterday; just out, brand-new, up to date, up to the minute, with it, fashionable, in fashion; in, hip [coll.]; vernal, renovated, sempervirent[obs], sempervirid[obs].

fresh as a rose, fresh as a daisy, fresh as paint; spick and span.

Adv. newly &c. adj.; afresh, anew, lately, just now, only yesterday, the other day; latterly, of late. not long ago, a short time ago.

Phr. di novello tutto par bello[It]; nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum est prius[Lat]; una scopa nuova spazza bene[It].