à la modalityn.

Brit.

/ˌa la mə(ʊ)ˈdalᵻti/,

/ˌa lə mə(ʊ)ˈdalᵻti/,

/ˌɑː lɑː mə(ʊ)ˈdalᵻti/, U.S.

/ˌɑ lɑ moʊˈdælədi/

Forms: 1700s– alamodality, 1900s– à-la-modality.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin alamodalitas.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin alamodalitas (1716 or earlier) < French à-la-mode à la mode adv. + classical Latin -ālitās -ality suffix. Compare earlier à-la-modeness n.In the form à-la-modality after à la mode adj. or its French etymon.

rare before late 20th cent.

The quality of being à la mode; fashionableness, modishness.Now chiefly in historical fiction.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun]

fashionableness1640

à-la-modeness1669

modishness1676

à la modality1753

tonishness1780

style1807

stylishnessa1817

fashionability1840

swellishness1863

hep1899

hipness1937

coolness1951

hip1956

cool1962

hipdom1962

with-it-ness1963

funkiness1974

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. 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.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. A German writer..has a dissertation express on alamodality in writing (Geamœnius de Alamodalitate Scribendi).

a1843 R. Southey Doctor (1847) VI. xx. 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 N. Stephenson Diamond Age (2003) i. 17 She'd always had a kind of natural, unconscious alamodality.

1999 C. Harrod-Eagles Mirage (2002) xxi. 398 She arrived looking..very smart in pale lavender, her hat a profusion of ribbons, the apogee of à-la-modality.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	à la modality
释义	à la modalityn. Brit. /ˌa la mə(ʊ)ˈdalᵻti/, /ˌa lə mə(ʊ)ˈdalᵻti/, /ˌɑː lɑː mə(ʊ)ˈdalᵻti/, U.S. /ˌɑ lɑ moʊˈdælədi/ Forms: 1700s– alamodality, 1900s– à-la-modality. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin alamodalitas. Etymology: < post-classical Latin alamodalitas (1716 or earlier) < French à-la-mode à la mode adv. + classical Latin -ālitās -ality suffix. Compare earlier à-la-modeness n.In the form à-la-modality after à la mode adj. or its French etymon. rare before late 20th cent. The quality of being à la mode; fashionableness, modishness.Now chiefly in historical fiction. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] fashionableness1640 à-la-modeness1669 modishness1676 à la modality1753 tonishness1780 style1807 stylishnessa1817 fashionability1840 swellishness1863 hep1899 hipness1937 coolness1951 hip1956 cool1962 hipdom1962 with-it-ness1963 funkiness1974 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. 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. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. A German writer..has a dissertation express on alamodality in writing (Geamœnius de Alamodalitate Scribendi). a1843 R. Southey Doctor (1847) VI. xx. 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 N. Stephenson Diamond Age (2003) i. 17 She'd always had a kind of natural, unconscious alamodality. 1999 C. Harrod-Eagles Mirage (2002) xxi. 398 She arrived looking..very smart in pale lavender, her hat a profusion of ribbons, the apogee of à-la-modality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1753
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