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The thrill of the unused, measured in half-lives — today's revelation is tomorrow's old news.
means The state of being new, recent, or not yet worn down by time or use.
from A straightforward English coinage: the adjective 'new' — ancient, traced back through Old English 'nīwe' to a very old Indo-European root meaning 'new' (the same root that gives Latin 'novus' and Greek 'neos') — plus the native suffix '-ness', which turns qualities into nouns. No twist, no myth: just old Germanic bones holding up a word for the feeling of freshness.
- car smell
- actually off-gassing plastic and adhesives, engineered to feel exciting
- neuroscience
- novelty spikes dopamine harder than the reward itself
- shelf life
- hedonic adaptation kills newness in roughly weeks
- marketing trick
- new and improved just means repackaged and pricier