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Novel vs Pristine - What's the difference?

novel | pristine |

As adjectives the difference between novel and pristine

is that novel is new, original, especially in an interesting way while pristine is unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.

As a noun novel

is a novelty; something new.

novel

English

(wikipedia novel)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • new, original, especially in an interesting way
    • Usage notes
    * Said of ideas, ways, etc.
    Synonyms
    * See also

    Etymology 2

    In various senses from (etyl) novelle or (etyl) novella, both from (etyl) novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, from . Some senses came to English directly from the Latin. (etystub)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A novelty; something new.
  • *, II.2.4:
    • merry talessuch as the old woman told of Psyche in Apuleius, Boccace novels , and the rest, quarum auditione pueri delectantur, senes narratione , which some delight to hear, some to tell, all are well pleased with.
  • A work of prose fiction, longer than a short story.
  • (classical studies, historical) A new legal constitution in ancient Rome.
    • Derived terms
    * novelisation, novelization * novelist
    Related terms
    * novella

    pristine

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) pristin.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
  • Primitive, pertaining to the earliest state of something

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to sawfishes of the family Pristidae.
  • * 2008, J.M. Whitty, N.M. Phillips, D.L. Morgan, J.A. Chaplin, D.C. Thorburn & S.C. Peverell, Habitat associations of Freshwater Sawfish (Pristis microdon)and Northern River Sharks (Glyphis sp. C): including genetic analysis of P. microdon across northern Australia [http://www.environment.gov.au/coasts/publications/pubs/freshwater-sawfish-northern-river-shark.pdf]
    • This indicates that the present levels of genetic diversity in P. microdon are not unusually low, although the amount of diversity to be expected in pristine populations of coastal species of elasmobranch remains elusive because all populations investigated to date have suffered some degree of decline (e.g. Sandoval-Castillo et al. 2004, Keeney et al. 2005, Hoelzel et al. 2006, Stow et al. 2006, Lewallen et al. 2007).
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