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modishness|ˈməʊdɪʃnɪs| [f. modish + -ness.] The state or quality of being modish; conformity to the fashion; affectation of the fashion.
1676Glanvill Seasonable Reflect. 30 [They] do not Scoff at Religion out of enmity or malice, but out of modishness and compliance. 1712M. Henry Life P. Henry Wks. 1857 II. 744/2 We must..not affect singularity, nor affect modishness. 1894A. Birrell Ess. ix. 101 Wit of that genuine kind which is free from modishness. |