mindmap root((时尚)) fashion is the most general term and applies to any way of dressing, behaving, writing, or performing that is favored at any one time or place or by any group: the current ~ for Russian ballet dancers. style often implies a distinctive fashion adopted by people of wealth or taste: a media mogul used to travelling in ~. mode suggests the fashion of the moment among those anxious to appear elegant and sophisticated: sleek, tanned bodies are the ~ at such resorts. vogue stresses the prevalence or wide acceptance of a fashion: a novelist who is no longer much in ~. fad suggests caprice in taking up or in dropping a fashion: nothing is more dated than last year's ~. rage stresses intense enthusiasm in adopting a fad: Cajun food was quite the ~. craze like rage, emphasizes senseless enthusiasm in pursuing a fad: a sport that is more than a passing ~.