fashionableness

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The fashionableness of a fact-or-fiction binary puts avowed believers on the defensive, forcing them to choose between admitting to ridiculous-sounding convictions or denying their faith.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 9, 2015

Add to all that yoga's global fashionableness and Iranians' high rates of anxiety and depression, and you have the first genuinely yoga savvy middle-class in the entire Middle East.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their dress, especially that of the younger, amused us by its queer mixture of fashionableness and homeliness, such as grey ribbed stockings and shining paste shoe-buckles, rusty velvet small-clothes and a coatee of blue cloth.

From John Halifax, Gentleman by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock

He described the hotel, and told what he had to do there, and about Mrs. Harmon and the fashionableness of all the guests.

From The Minister's Charge by Howells, William Dean

Only a grey fringe—the last vanity of pauperdom—remained of all her fashionableness.

From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel