Noun

(en noun)

Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity.

Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; fanaticism.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.}}

(psychiatry) The state of abnormally elevated or irritable mood, arousal, and/or energy levels.

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