Definition of Colloquiality

1. Noun. The state or condition of being colloquial; colloquialness. ¹

2. Noun. A colloquial term, utterance, etc.; a colloquialism. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Colloquiality

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Colloquiality

collonaded
collonades
collop
colloped
collophore
collophores
collops
colloq
colloque
colloques
colloquia
colloquialism
colloquialisms
colloquialities
colloquiality (current term)
colloquialize
colloquialized
colloquializes
colloquializing
colloquially
colloquialness
colloquials
colloquies
colloquist
colloquists
colloquium
colloquiums
colloquize
colloquy

Literary usage of Colloquiality

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Paradise Lost by John Milton, Egerton Brydges (1851)
"Plain as the style is, it never sinks into colloquiality or the language of business: he had kept his genius aloof from his daily occupation, and suffered ..."

2. The Contemporary Review (1874)
"And, withal, such letters are the perfection of refined colloquiality. ¡Those of the late Miss Mitford carried the carelessness of implicit confidence to an ..."

3. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"Howells, summarizing Mark Twain's gifts (1901), has written: He is apt to burlesque the lighter colloquiality, and it is only in the more serious and most ..."

4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1811)
"... (with whom a familiarity and colloquiality of expression will form a recommendation,) we should animadvert on i variety of inelegant phrase* which occur ..."

5. Byron and Byronism in America by William Ellery Leonard (1905)
"The real mastercraft in the nonchalant ease and colloquiality of Don Juan was in the same way, as observed by Legare, all too little ap- ..."

6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"... effective situations, but they are miserably deficient in wit, sentiment, or even a decent sprightliness in the colloquiality of the dramatis personal. ..."

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