fad
noun
a temporary fashion, notion, manner of conduct, etc., especially one followed enthusiastically by a group.
Example Sentences
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Vaping is a cultural punchline and a kind of shorthand for obnoxious faddism, and so, apparently, are these socks.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2019
That made “wedges” vulnerable to faddism and footloose about the real economics.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2011
A fruitful wedding of faith, faddism and free enterprise was not long in coming.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he later switched to stereo and small speakers not out of mere faddism but because they were better.
From Time Magazine Archive
It may be granted that a genuine necessity of sale is the stimulus to which all serious effort in the arts must look for progress, and without which they would become faddism and conceit.
From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various
