alamodality

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noun

The quality of being fashionable.

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Meanings

nounalamodality (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableThe 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
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    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

Origin

From à la mode + -ality.

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APA

alamodality. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alamodality

MLA

“alamodality.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alamodality. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “alamodality,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alamodality.

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