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NEWNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being new; the opposite of oldness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("newness" is a kind of...):
age (how long something has existed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "newness"):
brand-newness (the property of being very new)
freshness (the property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made); not stale or deteriorated)
recency; recentness (the property of having happened or appeared not long ago)
Antonym:
oldness (the quality of being old; the opposite of newness)
Derivation:
new (not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered)
