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Webster 1913 Edition


Alamodality

Alˊa-mo-dal′i-ty

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Noun.
The quality of being à la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness.
[R.]
Southey.

Webster 1828 Edition


Alamodality

ALAMODAL'ITY

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Noun.
Conformity to the prevailing mode, or fashion of the times. [Little used.]

Definition 2024


alamodality

alamodality

English

Noun

alamodality (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The quality of being fashionable.
    1847 Robert Southey, "The doctor" p.189
    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.
    2000 Neal Stephenson, "The diamond age"
    Gwendolyn Hackworth hadn't packed a parasol, but she was untroubled; she'd always had a kind of natural, unconscious alamodality.