fashionableness
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6.3
- noun
- /ˈfæʃənəblnəs/
- Fashionableness is important for many young people who want to impress their peers.
Examples
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He is always aware of the latest trends to maintain his fashionableness.
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Ideals like fashionableness and voluntary poverty cannot be graded or ranked; they simply exploit different sectors of human possibility, and the observer can see the fineness of both.
Academic text (1999) -
At the moment, it is the fashionableness of the cerebral and the mechanical that puts the field worker on the defensive.
Academic text (2001) -
The fashionableness of her outfit made her stand out at the party.
Synonyms
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3.4
A distinctive way people dress or behave that shows taste
∞
1.0
A popular style of clothes and how people look
48
3.5
A graceful, stylish way of looking or behaving that shows good taste
23
5.3
A style or idea that is fashionable now
12
3.7
An attractive, stylish quality that many people admire
3
6.3
A type of fashion for clothes or rooms that is very elegant and of the best quality
3
4.0
How popular or fashionable something is now
2
7.2
Being fashionable and following the latest trends
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4.1
A quality of being elegant, stylish, and showing good taste
1
4.5
A sense of good style in clothes, design, or manners
1
3.6
A quality of being fashionable and attractive
1
4.0
A decorative, stylish appearance that seems expensive
1
6.3
A style that seems elegant and upper class
1
6.5
Being stylish and elegant in a simple way
1
3.6
A clean, stylish way of dressing
1
8.4
A stylish, impressive appearance that shows wealth or good taste
1
7.2
A stylish, expensive look that shows someone is rich
1
7.9
A quality of being in style and following the latest fashions
A fun, fashionable quality that makes people or things seem attractive
Antonyms
How Fashionable
Surface Forms
Morphology
fashionableness = fashionable (transparent) = fashion + able + ness
The noun is formed from the adjective 'fashionable' by the regular nominalizing suffix '-ness', yielding 'the quality of being fashionable'.
Etymology
Fashionableness comes from the word fashion, which once meant 'the way something is made' and comes from an old word for 'to make'. So fashionableness is the quality of being made in the popular or accepted way, that is, 'stylishness'.