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Frippery vs Thoughtlessness - What's the difference?

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Frippery is a related term of thoughtlessness.


As nouns the difference between frippery and thoughtlessness

is that frippery is ostentation, as in fancy clothing while thoughtlessness is disregard for other's feelings.

frippery

English

Noun

  • Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
  • Useless things; trifles.
  • * 1892' April, (Frederick Law Olmsted), ''Report by F.L.O.'', quoted in '''2003 , , New York, N.Y.: (Crown Publishing Group), ISBN 978-0-609-60844-9, page 170:
    • [Olmsted reiterated his insistence that in Chicago] simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.
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  • (obsolete) Cast-off clothes.
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  • (obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
  • (obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.
  • * 1610 , , act 4 scene 1
    • O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery .
  • Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
    • Fond of gauze and French frippery . — .
    The gauzy frippery of a French translation. — .

    References

    * 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language , Robert Hunter and Charles Morris, eds., v 2 p 2213. [for entries 2, 3, 4, & 5] Frippery (Page: 597) (Webster 1913)

    thoughtlessness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • disregard for other's feelings
  • heedless disregard for the consequences of one's actions

    • Antonyms

    * thoughtfulness