fashionability

noun

Definition of fashionabilitynext
as in popularity
the state of enjoying widespread approval doesn't regard the fashionability of his fiction as prima facie evidence that it has no literary merit

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Recent Examples of fashionability Combining functionality with fashionability, while maintaining Vuori’s sleek silhouettes, simple embellishments and a quiet color palette. — Kaio Cesar, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fashionability
  1. popularity
  2. vogue
  3. favor
Noun
  • Meanwhile, the popularity of injectables and other in-clinic treatments like lasers and microneedling is changing how consumers understand what lies beneath the surface.
    — Amy Francombe, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Watch Duty exploded in popularity by providing up-to-the-minute firefighting updates, fire perimeters, and on-the-scene reports to people previously stuck navigating a fractured system of emergency alerts that gave minimal information.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of popularity
Noun
  • This attitude is not necessarily in vogue in contemporary politics.
    — Emma Green, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Former Keshet International boss Shtruzman and ex-Cristal Pictures Co-CEO Einbinder launched New Short Media earlier this year, one of a new wave of vertical drama platforms tapping into the in-vogue medium.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of vogue
Noun
  • But this election cycle, Democrats are banking on several factors working in their favor.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Instead, as would later happen in Kansas and Nebraska, slaveowners and Southern sympathizers on the one hand and abolitionists and Free-Soilers on the other all flocked to California to try to tip the political scales in their favor.
    — Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of favor

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“Fashionability.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fashionability. Accessed 2 Nov. 2026.

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