NEWNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)