Definition of Newfangledness

1. n. Affectation of, or fondness for, novelty; vain or affected fashion or form.

Definition of Newfangledness

1. Noun. The quality of being newfangled. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Newfangledness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Newfangledness

newcos
newcreate
newe
newed
newel
newel post
newel posts
newell
newelled
newells
newels
newer
newest
newfangle
newfangled
newfangledness (current term)
newfangleness
newfanglist
newfangly
newfashion
newfashioned
newform
newforming
newforms
newfound
newfoundland
newfront
newfurnish
newgroup

Literary usage of Newfangledness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"... that to chuse this, were it not for some wic-grown occasion, making that which hath been better worse. Id. Yet he them in newfangledness did pass. ..."

2. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"All questioning of the principles on which the religious establishment was based was in her eyes intolerable presumption" or frivolous " newfangledness. ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"All questioning of the principles on •which the religious establishment was based was in her eyes intolerable " presumption " or frivolous " newfangledness. ..."

4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"newfangledness, Folly, and the 1 like, but manv of the gods and goddesses of ! i lassical mythology also figure in the dramatis ..."

5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"Among the best known is his "Satire on Town Ladies," in which the "newfangledness of geir" is amusingly exposed.—HENDERSON.TF, 1893, Dictionary of National ..."

6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1840)
"If you borrow these lessons from Christopher's school, The result, my good friends, may be left to old Bull ; Even Peggy and Pat, their newfangledness past, ..."

7. Criminality and Economic Conditions by Willem Adriaan Bonger (1916)
"... all other sorts of people, use much strange and proud newfangledness in their apparel, and too much prodigal riot and sumptuous fare at their table. ..."

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