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Want of attention, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect. Novel lays attract our ravished ears; But old, the mind inattention hears. Pope.

To bring in as new; to introduce as a novelty; as, to innovate a word or an act. [Archaic]

The quality of being unusual or novel. [Obs.] Spenser.

Deviating from that which is customary; novel; strange; unusual. [Obs.] If one chance to derive any word from the Latin which is insolent to their ears . . . they forth with make a jest at it. Petti If any should accuse me of being new or insolent. Milton.

ing, or pertaining; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation. To mangle a play or a novel. Swift.

The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty. M. Arnold.

An innovation or novelty; a neoteric word or phrase.

A novelty; a new thing. [Obs.] Spenser.

Eager for novelties; desirous of changing. [Obs.] So newfangel be they of their meat. Chaucer.

Newmade; formed with the affectation of novelty. "A newfangled nomenclature." Sir W. Hamilton.

Affectation of, or fondness for, novelty; vain or affected fashion or form.

One who is eager for novelties or desirous of change. [Obs.] Tooker.

In a newfangled manner; with eagerness for novelty. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

Not hitherto described; novel; hence, odd; abnormal; unclassifiable.

Newness; novelty. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic. Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem. Dryden. Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite, significations. Locke.

A room for the exhibition of novelties.

Origin; authorship. The paternity of these novels was . . . disputed. Sir W. Scott.

In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went bef…

; -- often used by way of reproach or contempt. Paritanical circles, from which plays and novels were strictly excluded. Macaulay. He had all the puritanic traits, both good and evil. Hawthorne.