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ˈfashionableness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
†1. Superficiality, formality. Cf. fashionable 2.
1608–11Bp. Hall Epist. iii. iii. 43 All which that Babylonish religion shifteth off with a careless fashionablenesse. 1612–5― Contempl. N. T. Bloody Issue Wks. (1634) II. 139 Outward fashionablenesse comes into no account with God; that is onely done which the soule doth.
2.
†a. Elegance, attractiveness (obs.).
b. The quality or state of being in vogue or in conformity with fashion.
1640Fuller Joseph's Coat iii. (1867) 128 (To give the world..her due) she hath for the time a kind of a pleasing fashionableness. 1661Boyle Style of Script. 187 A Fashionableness which within a short while will perhaps be Ridiculous. 1699Locke Educ. §37 This outside fashionableness of the Taylor or Tire-woman's making. 1776Adam Smith W.N. i. xi. (1869) I. 165 The fashionableness and scarcity of the wine. 1841Hor. Smith Moneyed Man I. iv. 95 The ultra-fashionableness of a professed elegante. |