Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A disposition to take up with fads; a fondness for fads.
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- noun The behaviour of a
faddist ; followingfads .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"American education has a history of faddism; some good idea comes into the mainstream, they don't see immediate results and then it's dropped," said Jennings.
Ramaa Reddy Raghavan: Thoughts on Mindful Awareness Practices in Education Ramaa Reddy Raghavan 2011
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Another reason is faddism: scientists are quick to jump on the bandwagon of a new discovery.
Deepak Chopra: Watch out, the truth is slipping away Deepak Chopra 2011
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"American education has a history of faddism; some good idea comes into the mainstream, they don't see immediate results and then it's dropped," said Jennings.
Ramaa Reddy Raghavan: Thoughts on Mindful Awareness Practices in Education Ramaa Reddy Raghavan 2011
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Another reason is faddism: scientists are quick to jump on the bandwagon of a new discovery.
Deepak Chopra: Watch out, the truth is slipping away Deepak Chopra 2011
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Without systematic incentives rewarding officials for wise decisions and penalizing them for bad ones, public schooling became a ferris wheel of faddism rather than a propagator of excellence.
Escalante Stood and Delivered. It's Our Turn. Andrew J. Coulson 2010
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Without systematic incentives rewarding officials for wise decisions and penalizing them for bad ones, public schooling became a ferris wheel of faddism rather than a propagator of excellence.
Escalante Stood and Delivered. It's Our Turn. Andrew J. Coulson 2010
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Without systematic incentives rewarding officials for wise decisions and penalizing them for bad ones, public schooling became a ferris wheel of faddism rather than a propagator of excellence.
Escalante Stood and Delivered. It's Our Turn. Andrew J. Coulson 2010
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It is faddism of the worst kind and if I was one of the people who has come on to this site spitting tacks because they are a genuine sufferer I would also hate them.
Archive 2007-11-01 Steve Carper 2007
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It is faddism of the worst kind and if I was one of the people who has come on to this site spitting tacks because they are a genuine sufferer I would also hate them.
Intolerance of Intolerance: Follow-up Steve Carper 2007
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The story might have him playing an effete easterner converted into a "real" American by the Old West, or demonstrating manly American virtues in decadent Europe or corrupt Latin America, or good-humoredly asserting American common sense in response to vogues like health faddism or pacifism, but in all these plots he was the exact same wholesome, attractive fellow he had always been.
The Silent Superstar Gottlieb, Robert 2009
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