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- noun derogatory A form of
architectural design based around certainaccentuated features .
Etymologies
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Boyd took aim at the unsightliness of post-war Australian suburban design, and what he described as its vulgar featurism: the gauche decorations, brick veneers and fussy stylistic embellishments that disfigured cul-de-sacs across the land.
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Boyd took aim at the unsightliness of post-war Australian suburban design, and what he described as its vulgar featurism: the gauche decorations, brick veneers and fussy stylistic embellishments that disfigured cul-de-sacs across the land.
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How creeping featurism has helped GNU Emacs gain unanticipated functionality
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Can be seen as an argument against creeping featurism, but it's more about who sees what.
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How creeping featurism has helped GNU Emacs gain unanticipated functionality
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How creeping featurism has helped GNU Emacs gain unanticipated functionality
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How creeping featurism has helped GNU Emacs gain unanticipated functionality
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How creeping featurism has helped GNU Emacs gain unanticipated functionality
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HTML 5 is beginning to suffer from creeping featurism.
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Linux suffers from creeping featurism in its layers of audio APIs, it started with OSS, a straightforward API based on files, then came ALSA, a wildly complex API with broken documentation in a wiki you can’t edit, and an architecture that somehow means only one OSS application can write sound at a time.
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