Bandwagon vs Craze - What's the difference?
bandwagon | craze |
A large wagon used to carry a band of musicians in a parade.
(figuratively) A current movement that attracts wide support.
Craziness; insanity.
A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet.
A temporary passion or infatuation, as for same new amusement, pursuit, or fashion; as, the bric-a-brac craze; the aesthetic craze.
To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.
* Milton
To derange the intellect of; to render insane.
* Tillotson
* Shakespeare
To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
* Keats
(transitive, intransitive, archaic) To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See crase.
* Milton
(intransitive) To crack, as the glazing of porcelain or pottery.
As nouns the difference between bandwagon and craze
is that bandwagon is a large wagon used to carry a band of musicians in a parade while craze is craziness; insanity.As a verb craze is
to weaken; to impair; to render decrepit.bandwagon
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bandwagon effect * bandwagon fallacy * bandwagoning * jump on the bandwagonReferences
craze
English
Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (dialectal)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(craz)- Till length of years, / And sedentary numbness, craze my limbs.
- any man that is crazed and out of his wits
- Grief hath crazed my wits.
- She would weep and he would craze .
- God, looking forth, will trouble all his host, / And craze their chariot wheels.