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  • 21rage — Synonyms and related words: Alecto, Megaera, Nemesis, Tisiphone, abandon, acerbity, acrimony, agitation, amok, anger, asperity, assault, attack, babble, barbarize, batter, be angry, be excitable, be insane, be livid, be pissed, bellow, blast,… …

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  • 22unreliability — Synonyms and related words: capriciousness, chanciness, changeableness, coquettishness, credibility gap, criticalness, danger, delicacy, desultoriness, deviability, doubtfulness, dubiousness, eccentricity, erraticism, faddishness, faddism,… …

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  • 23volatility — Synonyms and related words: airiness, animation, ascent, brainlessness, bubbliness, buoyancy, caducity, changeability, changeableness, coquettishness, corruptibility, daintiness, death, delicacy, downiness, empty headedness, ephemerality,… …

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  • 24wrinkle — Synonyms and related words: abbreviate, age, bezel, bonus, bristle, canal, canalize, carve, chamfer, channel, chase, cheat the undertaker, chink, chisel, circumscribe, coarct, cocker, cockle, compact, compress, concentrate, condense, consolidate …

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  • 25fad — [fæd] n [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: Perhaps from fiddle faddle] something that people like or do for a short time, or that is fashionable for a short time ▪ Interest in organic food is not a fad, it s here to stay. >faddish adj >faddishness n …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 26fad — noun 1》 a craze. 2》 an arbitrary like or dislike. Derivatives faddish adjective faddishly adverb faddishness noun faddism noun faddist noun Origin C19 (orig. dialect): prob …

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  • 27fad — noun (C) something that someone likes or does for a short time, or that is fashionable for a short time: The break dancing craze soon passed, as most fads do. faddy, faddish adjective : She keeps trying all these faddy diets. faddiness,… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 28faddish — /ˈfædɪʃ/ (say fadish) adjective 1. resembling a fad. 2. given to fads. –faddishness, noun …

  • 29aesthete — [es′thēt΄] n. [Gr aisthētēs, a person who perceives: see AESTHETIC] 1. a person highly sensitive to art and beauty 2. a person who artificially cultivates artistic sensitivity or makes a cult of art and beauty SYN. AESTHETE, although applied to… …

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  • 30artsy-craftsy — [ärt′sēkraft′sē, ärt′sēkräft′sē] adj. Informal having to do with arts and crafts: usually used disparagingly to connote faddishness, dilettantism, superficiality, etc …

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