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alamodality

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English

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Etymology

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From à la mode +‎ -ality.

Noun

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alamodality (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The quality of being fashionable.
    • 1847, Robert Southey, The doctor, page 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.
    • 1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age [] , New York: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 13:
      Gwendolyn Hackworth hadn't packed a parasol, but she was untroubled; she'd always had a kind of natural, unconscious alamodality.