NOVELTY

[noun] [U]The novelty (= quality of being new or unusual) of the toys soon wore off and the children became bored with them.Television in Britain in the 1950s had a novelty value.If something is a novelty, it has not been experienced before and so is interesting.Tourists are still a novelty on this remote island.A novelty is also a cheap unusual object such as a small toy, often given as a present.A Christmas cracker usually contains a paper hat, a joke and a novelty.The shop sells novelty hats like plastic policeman's helmets and cowboy hats.