foppishness
Vain clothing obsession
Foppishness is excessive concern with appearance and fashion, especially in a man.
The word suggests vanity, affectation, and preoccupation with clothing, grooming, and style over substance: His foppishness extended to matching his pocket squares to his socks.
The quality implies not just caring about looks but caring too much, often with an air of pretension.
Fashion-obsessed gentleman
- beauMale romantic companion
- macaroniShort curved pasta
- popinjayVain, showy person
- clotheshorseObsessive about appearance
swell · exquisite · aesthete · gallant · fashionista · dapper · natty · spruce
Excessively eye-catching
- flamboyantStrikingly bold in style
- gaudyTastelessly ornate
- flashyShowy, often tastelessly so
- garishTastelessly showy
extravagant · theatrical · ornate · overdone · loud · splashy · glitzy · peacocky
Artificially contrived behavior
- pretentiousFalsely grand or important
- manneredArtificially formal in style
- preciousHighly esteemed, greatly valued
- mincingAffectedly delicate in manner
simpering · posturing · airs · posing · studied · contrived · artificial · put-on
Excessively proud or futile
- narcissisticObsessed with one's image
- conceitedExcessively proud of oneself
- self-admiringFond of oneself
- preeningGrooming with vanity
self-regarding · egotistical · smug · self-satisfied · primping · self-absorbed · vainglorious · prideful
dandy
Fashion-obsessed gentleman
clotheshorse · swell · exquisite · aesthete · gallant · fashionista · dapper · natty · spruce · debonair
showy
Excessively eye-catching
- flamboyantStrikingly bold in style
- gaudyTastelessly ornate
- flashyShowy, often tastelessly so
garish · extravagant · theatrical · ornate · overdone · loud · splashy · glitzy · peacocky · florid
affected
Artificially contrived behavior
- pretentiousFalsely grand or important
- manneredArtificially formal in style
- preciousHighly esteemed, greatly valued
mincing · simpering · posturing · airs · posing · studied · contrived · artificial · put-on · self-conscious
vain
Excessively proud or futile
- narcissisticObsessed with one's image
- conceitedExcessively proud of oneself
- self-admiringFond of oneself
preening · self-regarding · egotistical · smug · self-satisfied · primping · self-absorbed · vainglorious · prideful
- Dandy culturebeaus, gallants, macaronis, popinjays, coxcombs
- Fussy traitsfussy, nitpicking, finicky, persnickety, pernickety
foppishnessplainness
Unadorned, straightforward quality
austerity · simplicity · slovenliness · spareness · homeliness
foppishnessslovenliness
Habitual untidiness or carelessness
unkemptness · negligence · carelessness · scruffiness · dishevelment