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fad

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NOUN:

A fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time; a craze.

ETYMOLOGY:
Possibly from fidfad, fussy person, fussy, from fiddle-faddle

OTHER FORMS:
faddism(Noun), faddist(Noun), faddy(Adjective)

Thesaurus: synonyms for fad

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