trendinessn.
The uncritical following of fashionable modes of thought, dress, etc.; the quality of being trendy.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > following of fashion
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trendiness1966
trendyism1977
1966 Guardian 11 Oct. 6/2 Trendiness seemed worse than going to the common hordes.
1968 Listener 26 Dec. 871/2 Its breathless combination of trendiness and self~righteousness. Admittedly, How It Is is not alone in turning civil rights, say, into a fashion; and fashion..into a tyranny.
1972 J. McClure Caterpillar Cop iii. 42 The homes..were modest bungalows succumbing..to an ill-becoming trendiness; bright colours had been painted over the exterior woodwork.
1974 Economist 5 Jan. 13/1 As a result of yesterday's trendinesses, we have now created in the developed world an unfortunate excess of both birth control devices and anti-pollution controls.
1982 S. Radley Talent for Destruction x. 70 Indeed he is! A very popular Rector, I put it down to the fact that he's not trendy. Trendiness doesn't do in a parish like Breckham Market.
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