noun
- plural of foppishness; the quality or state of being excessively concerned with appearance, fashion, or trivial matters in an affected or vain manner
Usage: countable and uncountable uses; formal or literary
Examples
- His foppishnesses were evident in his obsession with designer clothes and elaborate hairstyles.
- The character's various foppishnesses made him a figure of ridicule in the novel.
- She dismissed his foppishnesses as mere vanity and superficiality.
- The foppishnesses of the aristocracy were satirized in the play.
- Despite his foppishnesses, he was genuinely kind-hearted beneath the affectation.