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Definitions

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  • noun Fashionableness.

Etymologies

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From fashionable +‎ -ity.

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Examples

  • The 'fashionability'of being bisexual was I think helped a great deal by fashion magazines.

    No thanks Sappho, my mouth is full Ms Robinson 2007

  • Now that the pink wine is produced throughout the world and enjoying a period of fashionability, it's worth revisiting the motherland of rosé, as well as the writings of one of its biggest fans.

    A.J. Liebling's Favorite Rosé, Perfect for Summer Jay McInerney 2011

  • The good news is I'm still wearing the Carhartt hoodie I bought nearly 20 years ago, and the tide has once again swept me onto the shores of fashionability.

    Woolrich Chic 2009

  • The good news is I'm still wearing the Carhartt hoodie I bought nearly 20 years ago, and the tide has once again swept me onto the shores of fashionability.

    Woolrich Chic 2009

  • “This increasingly ephemeral city seems to place its highest values on such transient values as hipness, coolness, artfulness, and fashionability.”

    Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

  • From the Fortune 500 lists between 1994 and 2003, we selected 109 companies that both appeared on Fortune's America's Most Admired Companies lists and responded to an annual survey that provided information about their budgeted investments in eight IT or IT-enabled innovations that experienced a period of fashionability.

    The Surprising Role Of Fashion In Information Technology Ping Wang 2010

  • But there were periods, such as the 70s, when surges in working-class militancy – and working-class fashionability – threatened this supremacy.

    Is the British middle class an endangered species? 2010

  • Finally, most of the IT innovations we studied have, after the fanfare of fashionability subsided, become part of the work systems in the adopting companies.

    The Surprising Role Of Fashion In Information Technology Ping Wang 2010

  • Wright, who has watched the harp gain acceptance in pop music while she shot her film in the spring, puts its new fashionability down to the fact so many bands have chosen to use its sound on stage: "The harp has lots of otherworldly associations and traditionally it was seen as quite a sweet feminine, almost heavenly instrument, but now musicians are taking the beautiful aspects of its sound and mixing it up."

    How Joanna Newsom made the harp hip 2010

  • Some people don't seem to understand that and get quite exercised about the changing fashionability of body shape, heel height or what have you.

    Is it OK to wear animal print in autumn? 2010

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