Tradition vs Fashion - What's the difference? (2024)

In obsolete terms the difference between tradition and fashion

is that tradition is to transmit by way of tradition; to hand down while fashion is to forge or counterfeit.

English

Noun

A part of culture that is passed from person to person or generation to generation, possibly differing in detail from family to family, such as the way to celebrate holidays.

* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne, title=Well Tackled!, chapter=2 citation, passage=Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.}}

A commonly held system. (rfex)

The act of delivering into the hands of another; delivery.

* Blackstone

A deed takes effect only from the tradition or delivery.

Derived terms

* traditional* traditionally* traditionalism

Synonyms

* (a commonly held system) doctrine

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.

* Fuller

The following story is traditioned with very much credit amongst our English Catholics.

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* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia fashion)

(countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.

* {{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.}}

(uncountable) Popular trends.

* John Locke

the innocent diversions in fashion

* H. Spencer

As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation.

(countable) A style or manner in which something is done.

* 1918 , Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V

When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Phil Dawkes, title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom, work=BBC Sportcitation, page=, passage=It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion .}}

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.

the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.

* Bible, Luke ix. 29

The fashion of his countenance was altered.

* Shakespeare

I do not like the fashion of your garments.

(dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.

men of fashion

Derived terms

* fashionable* fashionably* fashion collection* fashion designer* fashionless* fashion model* fashion plate* fashion police* fashion show* fashion victim* fashion week* in fashion* like it's going out of fashion

Related terms

* fact* faction* factor* factorial* factory

Verb

(en verb)

To make, build or construct.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX

I have three gourds which I fill with water and take back to my cave against the long nights. I have fashioned a spear and a bow and arrow, that I may conserve my ammunition, which is running low.

* 2005 , :

a device fashioned by arguments against that kind of prey.

(dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.

* John Locke

Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight.

(dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to .

* Spenser

Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people.

(obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.

(Shakespeare)

Derived terms

* refashion