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alamodality en · NOUN

Etymology

From à la mode + -ality.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) The quality of being fashionable.
    • 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:
    • 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: