noun
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the condition or quality of being informal
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an informal act
Other Word Forms
- superinformality noun
Etymology
Origin of informality
Example Sentences
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The illustrations by Leanne Hatch have a warm informality as she shows a family of five lighting the candles on a menorah each evening before dinner.
Her supervisor and mentor, Professor Louis Leakey, saw the value in that informality.
From BBC
But informality and ambiguity remain a feature, not a bug, of China’s approach to coercive economic bargaining.
While sharing similar tenets like low-slung horizontality, natural materials and warm informality, some incorporate elements of Colonial or Spanish architecture, others take on a bit of Swiss Chalet.
From Los Angeles Times
But she told me that her supervisor and mentor, Professor Louis Leakey, saw the value in her informality.
From BBC
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