faddist
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]faddist (plural faddists)
- A person or entity given to following fads.
- He is such a fashion faddist.
- The faddist magazines have been hyping that lately.
- 1904, J. O. Todd, “A Provincial Sanatorium for Manitoba”, in Canada Lancet, volume 37, page 262:
- In speaking thus somewhat emphatically I would not wish to be classed as a faddist on the question of sanatorial treatment because personally I am of the opinion that sanatorial institutes are not the permanencies that many would have them be in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis […]