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Fashion vs Simplicity - What's the difference?

fashion | simplicity |

In lang=en terms the difference between fashion and simplicity

is that fashion is to fit, adapt, or accommodate to while simplicity is an act or instance of foolishness.

As nouns the difference between fashion and simplicity

is that fashion is a current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons while simplicity is the quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths.

As a verb fashion

is to make, build or construct.

fashion

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia fashion)
  • (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}
  • (uncountable) Popular trends.
  • * John Locke
    • the innocent diversions in fashion
  • * H. Spencer
    • As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.
  • (countable) A style or manner in which something is done.
  • * 1918 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
    • When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion .}}
  • The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
    • the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.
  • * Bible, Luke ix. 29
    • The fashion of his countenance was altered.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I do not like the fashion of your garments.
  • (dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
    • men of fashion

    Derived terms

    * fashionable * fashionably * fashion collection * fashion designer * fashionless * fashion model * fashion plate * fashion police * fashion show * fashion victim * fashion week * in fashion * like it's going out of fashion

    Related terms

    * fact * faction * factor * factorial * factory

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make, build or construct.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX
    • I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.
  • * 2005 , :
    • a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.
  • (dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.
  • * John Locke
    • Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.
  • (dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to .
  • * Spenser
    • Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.
  • (obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * refashion

    External links

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    simplicity

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (wikipedia simplicity)
  • The quality or state of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths.
  • The quality or state of being not complex, or of consisting of few parts; as, the simplicity of a machine.
  • Artlessness of mind; freedom from cunning or duplicity; lack of acuteness and sagacity.
  • Freedom from artificial ornament, pretentious style, or luxury; plainness; as, simplicity of dress, of style, or of language; simplicity of diet; simplicity of life.
  • Freedom from subtlety or abstruseness; clearness; as, the simplicity of a doctrine; the simplicity of an explanation or a demonstration.
  • Freedom from complication; efficiency.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • Weakness of intellect; silliness; folly.
  • (rare) An act or instance of foolishness.
  • *, II.31:
  • *:speaking of the great simplicity we commit, in leaving yong children under the government and charge of their fathers and parents.

    • Antonyms

    * complexity * complication

    Related terms

    * simple

    References

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