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"Craze" redirects here. For the material science topic, see crazing.
"Fad" redirects here. For the acronym "FAD", see FAD (disambiguation).
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Look up craze, fad, trend in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
A fad is something that becomes very popular with a small group of people for a short period of time. It is unpredictable, short lived, and without social, economic and political significance
A trend is something that becomes popular within mainstream society over a long period of time. It is the direction of a sequence of events that has some momentum and durability
Both fads and trends are propagated by trendsetters.Vejlgaard, Henrik: Anatomy of a Trend. USA: McGraw-Hill, 2007
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