newfanglements

Noun

newfanglement (countable and uncountable, plural newfanglements)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being newfangled; novelty or innovation, especially when very complicated or faddish.
   • So it is in traffic of all sorts, which this world lives upon; it's all newfanglement, and that's the fashion of the times.1833, Mrs. Catherine Manners (later Catherine, Lady Stepney.), The New Road to Ruin, page 31
2. (countable) Something that is newfangled.
   • The harvesting machine — drawn by a big caterpillar or four-wheel-drive tractor — is a costly and colossal newfanglement which unearths two rows of potatoes simultaneously, shakes out the soil, separates the rocks from the potatoes which are delivered by moving belt to the accompanying truck that...1965, The Business Review, page 4