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fad·dist    Audio Help   [fad-ist] Pronunciation Key
–noun
a person following a fad or given to fads, as one who seeks and adheres briefly to a passing variety of unusual diets, beliefs, etc.
[Origin: 1880–85; fad + -ist]

—Related forms
faddism, noun
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fad    Audio Help   (fād)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time; a craze.


[Possibly from fidfad, fussy person, fussy, from fiddle-faddle.]

fad'dism n., fad'dist n., fad'dy adj.
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faddist

noun
a person who subscribes to a variety of fads 

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