craze
noun
[ kreɪz ]
• an enthusiasm for a particular activity or object which appears suddenly and achieves widespread but short-lived popularity.
• "the new craze for step aerobics"
Similar:
fad,
vogue,
trend,
fashion,
enthusiasm,
passion,
infatuation,
love,
obsession,
mania,
compulsion,
fixation,
fetish,
weakness,
fancy,
taste,
novelty,
whim,
fascination,
preoccupation,
rage,
thing,
craze
verb
• make (someone) insane or wildly out of control.
• "crazed by hunger, the population began to turn on the rebels"
• produce a network of fine cracks on (a surface).
• "the loch was frozen over but crazed with cracks"
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘break, produce cracks’): perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Swedish krasa ‘crunch’.
