a. [f. FAD sb.2 + -ISH.] a. Of persons: Addicted or given to fads, whimsical. b. Of things: Of the nature of a fad.
1855. Robinson, Whitby Gloss., Fondish or Faddish, adj., shallow in point of intellect, whimsical.
1881. Mrs. C. Praed, Policy & P., II. 194. Never was there such a faddish creature.
1891. The Athenæum, 31 Jan., 148/1. The faddish extremes of some composers and critics.
Hence Faddishness.
1884. Pall Mall G., 5 Dec., 1/2. If only they give up faddishness.
1889. The Saturday Review, LXVII. 16 Feb., 184/1–2. A summary of sound religion and useful learning, of sturdy patriotism and manly politics: a protest against the political faddishness, the unorthodox Methodism, the topsyturvy goody-goodiness outside religion, the morbid egotism, and, if we may speak without offence, the green-sickness of the mind and the will, of the senses and the emotions, with the idea of which Mr. Gell’s picture of his master’s views and teaching impresses some people.
