newness

plural newnesses

1. countableuncountableThe property of being new; novelty; recency.

   The newness of the car meant it still had that funny smell.

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   Surprised and rejoiced thus far at the unanticipated newness, and the sweet lucidness and simplicity of Isabel’s narrating, […] Pierre now, in handing the instrument to Isabel, could not entirely restrain something like a look of half-regret, accompanied rather strangely with a half-smile of gentle humor.

   1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities

   The newness is gone / The newness is gone / So why should we make pretend / When our love affair is destined to end

   1976, Eddie Kendricks, “The Newness Is Gone”, in Goin' Up in Smoke

   Thankfully, that sense of newness does come in the form of Ke Huy Quan’s Gary De’Snake, the first reptilian addition to Zootopia‘s all-mammal cast.

   2025 November 25, Caroline Siede, “Zootopia 2 is a stagnant sequel with one stellar subplot”, in AV Club