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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

informalidade

Pronunciation / Transliteration: in.for.ma.li.dade

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Informality/ˌɪn.fɔːˈmæl.ə.ti/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A informalidade do encontro fez todos se sentirem à vontade."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The quality of being informal; a lack of formality or conventionality.

    "The informality of the gathering made everyone feel at ease."
  2. 2

    An informal or casual manner or style.

    "Her informality in dress was refreshing at the formal event."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin 'informalis', combining the prefix 'in-' (not) and 'formalis' (formal, according to rule or form). It entered the English lexicon in the early 19th century as a noun abstraction representing the quality of being relaxed, unofficial, or unceremonious.

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