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Modist vs Modish - What's the difference?

modist | modish |

As a noun modist

is (archaic) a follower of fashion.

As an adjective modish is

conforming with fashion or style.

modist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) A follower of fashion.
    • (Webster 1913)

    modish

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Conforming with fashion or style.
  • *{{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.}}
  • In the mode.

    • Derived terms

    * modishly * modishness