informality

Main Entry:
informality [in-fawr-mal-i-tee]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ease
Synonyms: affability, aplomb, breeze, casualness, child's play, cinch, cleverness, composure, dexterity, dispatch, duck soup, easiness, easygoingness, efficiency, effortlessness, expertise, expertness, familiarity, flexibility, fluency, insouciance, knack, liberty, naturalness, nonchalance, poise, pushover, quickness, readiness, relaxedness, setup, simplicity, skillfulness, smooth sailing, smoothness, snap, spontaneity, unaffectedness, unceremoniousness, unconstraint, unreservedness, unrestraint
Main Entry: familiarity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: friendliness
Synonyms: acquaintance, acquaintanceship, boldness, closeness, ease, fellowship, forwardness, freedom, freshness, friendship, informality, intimacy, liberty, naturalness, openness, presumption, sociability, unceremoniousness
Antonyms: aloofness, cool, distance, frigidity, reserve, unfriendliness
Main Entry: freedom
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: easy attitude
Synonyms: abandon, boldness, brazenness, candor, directness, disrespect, ease, facility, familiarity, forthrightness, forwardness, frankness, impertinence, informality, ingenuousness, lack of reserve, lack of restraint, laxity, license, openness, overfamiliarity, presumption, readiness, spontaneity, unconstraint
Antonyms: difficulty, limitation, reserve, restraint, restriction
Main Entry: colloquialism
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: idiom
Synonyms: expression, informality
Main Entry: casualness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ease
Synonyms: composure, easiness, familiarity, informality, naturalness, poise, relaxed manner
Main Entry: naturalness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ease
Synonyms: affluence, ataraxia, bed of roses, calm, calmness, casualness, comfort, content, contentment, easiness, enjoyment, gratification, happiness, idleness, inactivity, inertia, inertness, informality, leisure, luxury, passivity, peace of mind*, poise, prosperity, quietness, quietude, relaxation, repose, requiescence, rest, restfulness, satisfaction, security, serenity, spontaneity, supinity, tranquility, unceremoniousness, unrestraint
Main Entry: unceremoniousness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ease
Synonyms: affluence, ataraxia, bed of roses, calm, calmness, casualness, comfort, content, contentment, easiness, enjoyment, gratification, happiness, idleness, inactivity, inertia, inertness, informality, leisure, luxury, naturalness, passivity, peace of mind*, poise, prosperity, quietness, quietude, relaxation, repose, requiescence, rest, restfulness, satisfaction, security, serenity, spontaneity, supinity, tranquility, unrestraint
Main Entry: unrestraint
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: ease
Synonyms: affluence, ataraxia, bed of roses, calm, calmness, casualness, comfort, content, contentment, easiness, enjoyment, gratification, happiness, idleness, inactivity, inertia, inertness, informality, leisure, luxury, naturalness, passivity, peace of mind*, poise, prosperity, quietness, quietude, relaxation, repose, requiescence, rest, restfulness, satisfaction, security, serenity, spontaneity, supinity, tranquility, unceremoniousness
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Freedom.
Synonyms:
-nouns
freedom, liberty, independence; license (permission); facility., scope, range, latitude, play; free play, full play, free scope, full scope; free stage and no favor; swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth; Liberty Hall., franchise, denization; free man, freed man, livery man; denizen., autonomy, self-government, liberalism, free trade; noninterference; Monroe Doctrine [U.S.]., immunity, exemption; emancipation (liberation); enfranchisement, affranchisement., free land, freehold; allodium; frankalmoigne, mortmain., bushwhacker; freelance, free thinker, free trader; independent.
-verbs
be free; have scope, have the run of, have one's own way, have a will of one's own, have one's fling; do what one likes, do what one wishes, do what one pleases, do what one chooses; go at large, feel at home, paddle one's own canoe; stand on one's legs, stand on one's rights; shift for oneself., take a liberty; make free with, make oneself quite at home; use a freedom; take leave, take French leave., set free (liberate); give a loose to (permit); allow scope to, give scope to; give a horse his head., make free of; give the freedom of, give the franchise; enfranchise, affranchise., laisser faire, laisser aller; live and let live; leave to oneself; leave alone, let alone.
-adjectives
free, free as air; out of harness, independent, at large, loose, scot-free; left alone, left to oneself., in full swing; uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined, unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented, unhindered, unobstructed, unbound, uncontrolled, untrammeled., unsubject, ungoverned, unenslaved, unenthralled, unchained, unshackled, unfettered, unreined, unbridled, uncurbed, unmuzzled., unrestricted, unlimited, unconditional; absolute; discretionary (optional)., unassailed, unforced, uncompelled., unbiassed, spontaneous., free and easy; at ease, at one's ease; degage, quite at home; wanton, rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished.
-adverbs
-phrases
ubi libertas ibi patria.
Antonyms: subjection
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