alamodality
(æləməʊˈdælɪtɪ)
[a. mod.L. alamodalitas, f. alamodal-is, f. à-la-mode: see next. Alamodal seems not to occur.]
The quality of being à la mode, or of following the fashion of the time; fashionableness.
| 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Alamodality, a study or endeavour to accommodate a man's self in point of behaviour, dress, conversation, and other actions of life, to the reigning taste of custom, from a motive of complaisance, and to avoid the imputation of ill-breeding. Ibid., A German writer..has a dissertation express on alamodality in writing (Geamœnius de Alamodalitate Scribendi). 1834 Southey Doctor xx. (D.) Doubtless it hath been selected for me because of its alamodality—a good and pregnant word. |