Change made by the introduction of something new; change in established laws, customs, rites or practices. innovation is expedient, when it remedies an evil, and safe, when men are prepared to receive it. innovation is often used in an ill sense, for a change that disturbs settled opinions and practices without an equivalent advantage.
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1. The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc.
2. A change effected by innovating; a change in customs; something new, and contrary to established customs, manners, or rites.
3. A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses.
One who favors innovation.
Variation Roget’s Thesaurus §20a
N. variation, alteration, modification, moods and tenses, discrepance, discrepancy, divergency, deviation, aberration, innovation
Adj. varied, modified, diversified
Newness Roget’s Thesaurus §123
N. newness, novelty, recency, immaturity, youth, gloss of novelty, innovation, renovation, modernism, mushroom, parvenu, latest fashion
V. renew, modernize
Adj. new, novel, recent, fresh, green, young, evergreen, raw, immature, unsettled, yeasty, virgin, untried, unhandseled, untrodden, untrod, unbeaten, fire-new, span-new, late, modern, neoteric, hypermodern, nouveau, new-born, nascent, neonatal, new-fashioned, new-fangled, new-fledged, of yesterday, just out, brand-new, up to date, up to the minute, with it, fashionable, in fashion, in, hip, vernal, renovated, sempervirent, sempervirid, fresh as a rose, fresh as a daisy, fresh as paint, spick and span
Adv. newly, afresh, anew, lately, just now, only yesterday, the other day, latterly, of late, not long ago, a short time ago
Phr. di novello tutto par bello, nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum est prius, una scopa nuova spazza bene
Change Roget’s Thesaurus §140
N. change, alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation, inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn, evolution, revolution, diversion, break, transformation, transfiguration, metamorphosis, transmutation, deoxidization, transubstantiation, mutagenesis, transanimation, transmigration, metempsychosis|, avatar, alterative, conversion, revolution inversion, displacement, transference, changeableness, tergiversation
V. change, alter, vary, wax and wane, modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with, turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert, pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume, work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce, transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume, metamorphose, ring the changes, innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards, give a turn to, give a color to, influence, turn the scale, shift the scene, turn over a new leaf, recast, reverse, disturb, convert into
Adv. mutatis mutandis
Int. quantum mutatus, phr, "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream", nous avons change tout cela, tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis, non sum qualis eram, casaque tourner, corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur, in statu quo ante bellum, "still ending and beginning still", vox audita perit littera scripta manet
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