mania(STRONG INTEREST)disapproving

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

fashion
fashionFashion trends for the season include light, cool fabrics.
styleA crisp navy suit will always be in style.
trendThe trend is now to wear skirts longer.
fadLet's hope this obsession with celebrity lifestyles is just a fad.
crazeCycling shorts were the latest craze that year.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Passionate or passing interests
centrism
craze
craze for something
cult
cultish
cultishly
drug
eat
eat, sleep, and breathe somethingidiom
faddish
faddism
fancy
geekery
infatuated
infatuated with someone
kick
mania
passion
passion project
someone's ruling passionidiom

fad | American Dictionary

fad
noun[ C ]
us/fæd/
a style or activity that suddenly becomes popular but which usually does not stay popular for very long:
He thought computers would be just a fad.

Examples of fad

fad
The one party one would expect to resist fads and stay true to its principles was compelled to follow a more bewitching siren.
It may be the case that the diffusion of privatisation was the result merely of imitating the policies of others and their fads and fashions.
This style of writing would become a major component of the national disco fad of the 1970s, which invariably used orchestral string sections.
This may mean a plurality of images of health, but these may also be subject to media-generated fads.
But it e could also be a case of more upmarket resorts aping an older fad for staged animal fights.
Others, while conscientiously working to emphasize the cultural status of a writer, end up merely pandering to popular tastes, promoting literary fads.
She adds that it may just be a passing fad.
It was a new scientific discourse, but phrenology was also a public rage, a sweeping fad, a craze.
The southern half of the main roof provided a private terrace for nude sunbathing, following the health fad of the day.
You have to apply a lot of judgment, so that you don't go running off on some nonproductive fad.
This is a straightforward way of incorporating into analysis nonprice variables that affects choices, such as congestion, fads, or information contagion.
The fad for equestrian portraiture was launched in the early 1860s.
I sympathize with the detractors, sharing their dislike for commodity culture and their revulsion at the transformation of aesthetics into a brand or fad.
One became as it were vaccinated against fads.
It is contrasted with quick success, temporary fads, throw-away commodities, and cultural fast-food.
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