novel

New and original; not seen before; interestingly different.

• novelty/ˈnɒvəlti/(n)新奇；新鲜感
• innovate/ˈɪnəveɪt/(v)创新

• novel approach
• novel idea
• genuinely novel
• novel solution
• novel application
• a novel way of

1. 1.The research team developed a novel approach to the problem that no one in the field had previously attempted.
2. 2.Novelty alone is not sufficient — a novel idea must also be practical and scalable to have real impact.

• innovative/ˈɪnəveɪtɪv/— introducing new ideas
• original/əˈrɪdʒɪnəl/— not copied from anything
• unprecedented/ʌnˈpresɪdentɪd/— never done before

from Latin "novellus," diminutive of "novus" (new)