English Dictionary

novum

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 廃用

A new feature, a novelty.

日本語の意味

新しい特徴 / 新奇なもの

The startup marketed a bold novum that promised to revolutionize the way people commute.

そのスタートアップは、人々の通勤方法を変革すると約束する大胆な新機能を打ち出した。

意味（1）

A new feature, a novelty.

we find among the cultured devotees a tendency to idealize a foreign civilisation — a novum in Chinese history.

意味（2）

(narratology, science fiction) An innovation which is fictional, but, following the logic of cognitive estrangement (characteristic of science fiction), is lent plausibility by the assumption that the fictional universe is scientifically consistent.

In his book Metamorphoses of Science Fiction (1979), Suvin introduced a number of ideas that remain central in sf criticism: cognitive estrangement, the novum and sf's genetic link with utopia. […] Even more influential in sf theory than cognitive estrangement is Suvin's concept of the novum. […] Suvin adopts the concept of the novum from the work of Ernst Bloch, for whom the term refers to those concrete innovations of lived history that awaken human collective consciousness out of a static present to awareness that history can be changed. The novum thus inspires hope for positive historical transformations.

意味（3）

(obsolete, uncountable) A game of dice, properly called novem quinque, the two principal throws being nine and five.

Abate throw at novum, and the whole world again Cannot pick out five such, take each one in his vein.

novums （ plural ）

nova （ plural ）