newˈfangledness
[f. prec. + -ness.]
The fact or state of being newfangled or new-fashioned; novelty, innovation.
| 1549 Chaloner Erasm. on Folly F iv, The supersticion of the Chaldees, and idle newfanglednesse of the Grekes. 1575 Brieff Disc. Troub. Franckford (1846) 37 So sore charged with newfanglednes and singularitie. 1608 Hieron Wks. l. 724/2 How easilie am I ouer-caried with this humour of newfanglednesse. a 1693 Urquhart's Rabelais iii. vii. 63 The Novelty and new-fangledness thereof..I dislike. 1823 Spirit Public Jrnls. 523 But this is the age of anomaly and newfangledness. 1877 G. Fraser Wigtown 361 So averse was he to titles and ‘newfangledness’, as he used to call it. |