faddist
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9.0
- noun
- /ˈfædɪst/
:
modista
- As a faddist, she always jumps on the latest beauty trends, buying every new product that comes out.
- food faddist
- health faddist
Examples
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Don't you see that in bringing the Eiffel Tower into an experiment that is, anyway, of very doubtful value but that has excited all the faddists of progress and science?
Academic text (2003) -
A widespread anti-historical bias has put historical studies on the defensive, and in the academic power game, faddists and ideologists are often preferred to serious younger scholars, not to speak of the steady loss of teaching positions in subjects that are no longer required or considered useful or interesting.
Academic text (1991) -
I am not a faddist.
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Conservatives will be around long after the faddist suicide cult called the Dem Party is extinct.
Blog text (13) -
I'm not sure I'd describe the Revival of the Faddist blog as a "happiness project," but it's certainly an engaging exercise in self-experimentation.
Blog text (20) -
Earlier in the hearing, industry counsel had tried to connect Desmond to a known "food faddist," Carleton Fredericks, because he had mentioned her on his radio show and she had written to thank him.
Academic text (2016) -
Faddist theories based on sensational claims rather than on solid evidence are widely acclaimed, and the advocacy of political, ideological, or religious causes is brazenly proclaimed to be a substitute for evidence.
Academic text (1991) -
"The League was evidently concerned to emphasize that side of Thoreau's career which presents a certain moral angularity to the average man and causes him to dub its exponent a faddist or crank.
Academic text (1999) -
One result of the agnosticism of these scholars regarding science as applied to the study of human affairs was that they missed most of what Neal and Hamlett described as the "enthusiastic, well-financed, faddist, nationally-oriented" academic circus that was the field of international relations in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s.
Academic text (1990) -
In an essay later in the year, Samuel Huntington disapprovingly labeled us "endists" and "intellectual faddists" and called our conclusions illusionary, complacent, dangerous, and subversive.
Academic text (2014)
Synonyms
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6.5
A person who thinks about one thing too much in a way that harms them
A person who quickly joins whatever is popular to fit in
A person who thinks about one thing too much
Antonyms
Compounds
How Faddish
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Faddist comes from fad, meaning a 'short-lived' fashion or idea, plus the ending -ist, meaning 'someone who does'. So a faddist is a person who quickly follows each new trend, often only for a short time.