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Definitions: Informality |
InformalityNoun1. A manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously. 2. Freedom from constraint or embarrassment; "I am never at ease with strangers". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "informality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
Synonym: InformalitySynonym: ease (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: formality (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Illegality | Illegality, informality, unlawfulness, illegitimacy, bar sinister. |
Nonobservance | Noun: nonobservance; evasion, inobservance, failure, omission, neglect, laches, laxity, informality. |
Unconformity | Noun: {opp. } nonconformity; unconformity, disconformity; unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly; anomalousness; Adjective: exception, peculiarity; infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage; teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi, monster, monstrosity, rarity; freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant; rouser, snorter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Informality |
| English words defined with "informality": cozy ♦ informal, Informalities, intimate. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | According to Carlos Arrigoni of Ernst & Young, the result of this trend has been a relative neglect and growing informality in the financing of small and midsized firms in the interior. (references) | |
Travel | Jamaica | On first meeting, a friendly "Good......Morning/Afternoon /Evening", will bring more response and respect than a casual "Hi." Generally, Jamaican business acquaintances, after a courteous and friendly first greeting, will respond quickly to informality. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Informality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Informality" is used about 96 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 96 | 33,456 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "informality": carefully-studied-careless-informality. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
informality | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "informality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | thjeshtësi (bareness, chastity, commonness, modesty, naivety, plainness, rusticity, simplicity, unpretentiousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | العامية, شىء غير رسمي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нередовност, неофициалност, непринуденост (affability, disengagement, ease, easiness, laissez-aller, simplicity, spontaneity, unconstraint, unpretentiousness), непринудена обстановка, липса на официалност, интимност (familiarity, intimacy, intimity, inwardness, nearness, privacy), интимен характер. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 非正式 (Informalities). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neoficiálnost, nenucenost (ease, negligence, nonchalance, spontaneity), neformálnost. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | غیررسمی بودن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | simplicité, sans cérémonie, absence de formalité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Formlosigkeit (amorphousness, formlessness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έλλειψη διατυπώσεων, παρατυπία (breach of formality, irregularity), ανεπίσημο. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אי רשמיות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fesztelenség (bluntness, ease, easiness, swagger, unreserve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | irregolarit (accident, anomaly, inequality, irregularity), tono familiare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 違式 (breach of etiquette), 略儀 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いしき (breach of etiquette, consciousness, kimono seat lining, senses, stone tree), りゃくぎ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuformoilid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | informalityay informidade, nulidade (lay hands on, nobody, nonentity, nought, null, nullity), economia informal (underground economy), ausência de formalidade, ausência de cerimônia. (various references) viciu de formã (flaw), lipsã de formalitate, lipsã de etichetã, lipsa unei formalitãţi, caracter neoficial. (various references) отсутствие церемоний. (various references) neformalnost (casualness). (various references) intimidad (closeness, familiarity, intimacy, intimity, nearness, privacy), informalidad (frivolity, unreliability, untrustworthiness), sencillez (elementariness, homeliness, naivety, simpleness, simplicity), llaneza (homeliness, simplicity), familiaridad (familiarity), falta de ceremonia, afabilidad (affability, amiability, geniality, matiness, smoothness, suavity). (various references) informell karaktär, otvungenhet (disengagement, ease, easiness, freedom). (various references) teklifsizlik (unconventionality), geçersizlik (invalidity, nullity, unsoundness, void, voidness), formaliteye uymama. (various references) відхід від форми, невимушеність (abandon, abandonment, ease, negligence, repose). (various references) tính chất không theo thủ tục quy định, tính chất không chính thức, h nh vi không chính thức tính không nghi thức thân mật, điều thân mật. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "informality" (pronounced i'nferma"lutē) |
| 6 | -m a" l u t ē | abnormality, formality, normality. |
| 5 | -a" l u t ē | actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, finality, frugality, functionality, generality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, individuality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, lethality, liberality, locality, materiality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, originality, partiality, personality, plurality, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, rationality, reality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality, vitality. |
| 4 | -l u t ē | ability, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, agility, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, civility, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, credulity, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, docility, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, equality, facility, fallibility, feasibility, fertility, fidelity, flammability, flexibility, fragility, frivolity, futility, gentility, gullibility, hostility, humility, immobility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incivility, incompatibility, incredulity, indestructibility, inequality, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, irritability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, mobility, motility, nobility, nonutility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, polity, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, quality, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, seasonality, senility, sensibility, stability, sterility, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, tranquility, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, utility, variability, versatility, viability, virility, visibility, volatility, vulnerability. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-i-i-l-m-n-o-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: formality, normality, trinomial. | |
-3 letters: finality, flatiron, formalin, infirmly, inflator, informal, limitary, matronly, military, minatory, minority, mirliton, molarity, morality. | |
-4 letters: airfoil, airlift, aliform, alimony, almonry, aminity, amorini, anility, faintly, foamily, formant, frailty, frontal, intimal, introfy, liftman, martini, miliary, mortify, niftily, nitrify, orality, rainily, riantly, tinfoil. | |
-5 letters: airily, aliyot, aroint, aroynt, artily, fairly, family, fantom, finial. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-i-i-l-m-n-o-r-t-y" | |
+2 letters: informatively, informatorily. | |
+3 letters: confirmability, inflammatorily. | |
+4 letters: informationally, uninformatively. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 66 6F 72 6D 61 6C 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -. ..-. --- .-. -- .- .-.. .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100110 01101111 01110010 01101101 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n f o r m a l i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0066 006F 0072 006D 0061 006C 0069 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4380728184796778758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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