If something is so new and original that it's never been seen, used or even thought of before, call it novel. The noun novel describes a book length work of fiction.
Of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; new; hence, out of the ordinary course; unusual; strange; surprising.
Noun
a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction; "his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels"; "he burned all the novels"
Noun
a extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story
Adjective S.
pleasantly novel or different; "common sense of a most refreshing sort"
Adjective S.
of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem"
a.
Of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; new; hence,
out of the ordinary course; unusual; strange; surprising.
a.
That which is new or unusual; a novelty.
a.
News; fresh tidings.
a.
A fictitious tale or narrative, professing to be conformed
to real life; esp., one intended to exhibit the operation of the
passions, and particularly of love.
a.
A new or supplemental constitution. See the Note under
Novel, a.
Novel
Novel
Some came of curiosity to hear some novels.3.
Of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; new; hence, out of the ordinary course; unusual; strange; surprising.
That which is new or unusual; a novelty.
Usage Examples
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel.
For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
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Other Usage ExamplesI always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
I've found myself at one in the morning just sitting at my desk spending an hour returning emails from the day until like two in the morning. It's ridiculous, I should be sleeping, or dreaming, or reading a novel.
I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.
A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.
I'm not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel.