fashionableness
- 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
A distinctive way people dress or behave that shows taste
A popular style of clothes and how people look
A graceful, stylish way of looking or behaving that shows good taste
A style or idea that is fashionable now
An attractive, stylish quality that many people admire
How popular or fashionable something is now
Being fashionable and following the latest trends
A type of fashion for clothes or rooms that is very elegant and of the best quality
A quality of being elegant, stylish, and showing good taste
A quality of being fashionable and attractive
Being stylish and elegant in a simple way
A sense of good style in clothes, design, or manners
A decorative, stylish appearance that seems expensive
A fun, fashionable quality that makes people or things seem attractive
A quality of being in style and following the latest fashions
A clean, stylish way of dressing
A style that seems elegant and upper class
A stylish, expensive look that shows someone is rich
A stylish, impressive appearance that shows wealth or good taste
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'.