informality

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informality

noun informalities

  1. countable, uncountable The condition of being informal. These people, drawn from many different places and with many different backgrounds, gave the whole life of the County an informality that was new to Ellen, an informality to which she never quite accustomed herself.
  2. countable, uncountable An informal term or usage; a colloquialism. One long riff without a beginning and without an end :Template:.., only portions of which […] may be served up to us here, punctuated — the word hardly seems appropriate to a piecemeal poetry in which, except for the ubiquitous slash, there is precious little punctuation — momentarily halted, then,

Opposite: formality

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Opposite: formality

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noun condition of being informal

Españolinformalidad
Portuguêsinformalidade
Françaisinformalité
Italianoinformalità

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@misc{informality_2026,
  title = {informality},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/informality},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}