newness

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The property of being new; novelty; recency.

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

   “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.”

   “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.”