nonfaddist

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

non- +‎ faddist

Noun[edit]

nonfaddist (plural nonfaddists)

  1. One who is not a faddist.
    • 1972, Ralph H. Turner, Lewis M. Killian, Collective Behavior, page 134:
      Intolerance toward the nonfaddist serves to bring more people into the fad and to protect the member from seeing his behavior through the eyes of nonfaddists.
    • 1988, Laura H. McArthur, Beliefs, Practices and Knowledge of International and American Students Regarding Food Supplements and Health Foods, page 49:
      One study used a nutrition opinions questionnaire which was designed to categorize the participants into either a faddist or nonfaddist group (Jaslo, Burnes, and Rivers 1965).