单词 | modishness |
释义 | modishnessn. The quality or fact of being modish; conformity to the prevailing fashion; advocacy or pursuit of what is fashionable. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] fashionableness1640 à-la-modeness1669 modishness1676 à la modality1753 tonishness1780 style1807 stylishnessa1817 fashionability1840 swellishness1863 hep1899 hipness1937 coolness1951 hip1956 cool1962 hipdom1962 with-it-ness1963 funkiness1974 1676 J. Glanvill Seasonable Refl. 30 [They] do not Scoff at Religion out of enmity or malice, but out of modishness and compliance. 1712 W. Bates Acct. Life P. Henry in Wks. (1857) II. 744/2 We must..not affect singularity, nor affect modishness. 1894 A. Birrell Ess. ix. 101 Wit of that genuine kind which is free from modishness. 1909 Daily Chron. 28 Oct. 4/4 This peculiarly halting method of delivery has come into modishness only since the mid-Victorian era. 1975 Daily Tel. 13 Nov. 18 I am distressed to hear that the onward march of clerical egalitarianism—not to say modishness—has brought an end to the use of ‘The Reverend’ at All Souls, Langham Place. 1989 Theatre Res. Internat. 14 88 We are to understand reproduction primarily as refashioning or making new, though it is by now a rather old fashion to signal one's modishness by placing re- in front of any available noun. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1676 |
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