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fashionability

fashionability noun: fashionableness.

Noun

fashionability (usually uncountable, plural fashionabilities)

  1. (usually) Fashionableness.
    • And now, if all the devices made use of on the occasion we have suggested—scowls, contemptuosities, cries of “humbug,” “devil in’t,“ charlatanry, and the hue and cry of editors, D. D.’s, M. D.’s, priests, lawyers, fashionability of churches, etc., put into grand action for reversing the mighty...1872 January 20, J. R. Robinson, “From the Winona (Minn.) Republican. Huxley and the Spiritualists. That Eminent Scientist Catches an American Tartar in a Winona Defender of the Faith.”, in...
    • It is as uncomfortable for us to wear stilettos as it would be for you. It's just that some women don't see an inability to walk as a problem in the pursuit of (misguided) fashionability.2010 November 14, Hadley Freeman, The Guardian

Forms of fashionability

pluralfashionabilities

Origin of fashionability

From fashionable + -ity.

Questions about fashionability

What does fashionability mean?
Fashionability means fashionableness.
What part of speech is fashionability?
Fashionability is a noun.
What is the plural of fashionability?
The plural of fashionability is fashionabilities.

Words near fashionability in the dictionary

  1. fashion-monger
  2. fashion-mongers
  3. fashion-plate
  4. fashion-plates
  5. fashionabilities
  6. fashionability
  7. fashionable
  8. fashionable lateness
  9. fashionableness
  10. fashionables
  11. fashionably

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