FADDIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does faddist mean? 

• FADDIST (noun)
  The noun FADDIST has 1 sense:

1. a person who subscribes to a variety of fads

  Familiarity information: FADDIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FADDIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who subscribes to a variety of fads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("faddist" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "faddist"):

food faddist (a person who adheres briefly to different diets)

Derivation:

fad (an interest followed with exaggerated zeal)

 Context examples 

You say he is a faddist.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He's as clever as they make 'em—a full-charged battery of force and vitality, but a quarrelsome, ill-conditioned faddist, and unscrupulous at that. He had gone the length of faking some photographs over the South American business.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)