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faddiness noun[ U ] UKinformaluk /ˈfæd.i.nəs/ us /ˈfæd.i.nəs/(alsofaddishness, uk /ˈfæd.ɪʃ.nəs/ us /ˈfæd.ɪʃ.nəs/) the fact of liking or disliking particular things, especially food, for no good reason: 特殊好恶;(尤指)挑食 He's grown out of his teenage faddiness.他已不是十几岁的男孩,不再挑食了。 She mocks the faddishness of fashion.她嘲讽时尚界的挑剔。 See
faddy Forget faddiness - there’s only the one cereal on offer. Parents sometimes nurture faddiness by being too anxious. Long before dietary faddiness became confusing, a pinch of salt was a nutritional godsend. We list some common causes of faddishness and guidelines to encourage good eating habits. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Wanting everything to be right anally anally retentive choosy cover all the basesidiom dot the i's and cross the t'sidiom fussbudget fussily fussiness fusspot fussy pedant pedantic pedantically pedantry perfectionism punctilious punctiliously punctiliousness purism purist
Examples of faddiness faddiness Just as different names exhibit differing degrees of faddiness, the authors found that words vary considerably in the extent of burstiness. The greatest uncertainty concerns the possible continuities and discontinuities between what used to be called eating disorders of childhood (such as pica, regurgitation, and extreme faddiness) and anorexia/bulimia nervosa. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |