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alamodality

alamodality noun: the quality of being fashionable.

Noun

alamodality (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The quality of being fashionable.
    • Doubtless it hath been selected for me because of its alamodality,- a good and pregnant word, on the fitness of which some German whose name appears to be erroneously as well as uncouthly written Geamoenus, is said to have composed a dissertation.1847, Robert Southey, The doctor, page 189
    • Gwendolyn Hackworth hadn't packed a parasol, but she was untroubled; she'd always had a kind of natural, unconscious alamodality.1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age […] , New York: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 13

Origin of alamodality

From à la mode + -ality.

Questions about alamodality

What does alamodality mean?
Alamodality means the quality of being fashionable.
What part of speech is alamodality?
Alamodality is a noun.

Words near alamodality in the dictionary

  1. Alaminos
  2. Alamins
  3. alamiqui
  4. alamiquis
  5. alamo
  6. alamodality
  7. alamode
  8. alamodeness
  9. alamodes
  10. Alamogordo
  11. Alamogordo glass

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