ˈfashionableness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
† 1. Superficiality, formality. Cf. fashionable 2.
| 1608–11 Bp. Hall Epist. iii. iii. 43 All which that Babylonish religion shifteth off with a careless fashionablenesse. 1612–5 ― Contempl. N. T. Bloody Issue Wks. (1634) II. 139 Outward fashionablenesse comes into no account with God; that is onely done which the soule doth. |
2. † a. Elegance, attractiveness (obs.). b. The quality or state of being in vogue or in conformity with fashion.
| 1640 Fuller Joseph's Coat iii. (1867) 128 (To give the world..her due) she hath for the time a kind of a pleasing fashionableness. 1661 Boyle Style of Script. 187 A Fashionableness which within a short while will perhaps be Ridiculous. 1699 Locke Educ. §37 This outside fashionableness of the Taylor or Tire-woman's making. 1776 Adam Smith W.N. i. xi. (1869) I. 165 The fashionableness and scarcity of the wine. 1841 Hor. Smith Moneyed Man I. iv. 95 The ultra-fashionableness of a professed elegante. |