📚 Fad, noun. 🔉 /fad/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially one that is short-lived; a craze. ❗️ Examples: 1. Some regard green politics as no more than the latest fad. 2. What started off as a fad among stamp enthusiasts has now grown into a veritable cult. 3. It is really quite wonderful, and I truly hope it is the beginning of a trend, not a short-lived fad. 4. Unlike more transitory fads and fashions, however, financial manias and panics have real and lasting economic consequences. 5. Because of that, they captured trends and fads that were happening at the moment more accurately than movies that took a year to make. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic