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faddism

  • a word derived from fad.
  • a word derived from faddist.

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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

Another specimen of European faddism has recently caught on: a Persian rain and sun shield called the umbrella.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new approach, they fear, could eliminate incentives to hard work and undercut liberal education with academic faddism.

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