alamodality

English

Etymology

à la mode +‎ -ality

Noun

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.