Downstyle

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Downstyle capitalization. uncountable
Adjective
  1. 1
    Which only capitalizes words (e.g. in headers) that would be capitalized in a normal sentence: which is styled in sentence case. not-comparable

Synonyms

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sentence casesentence case

Etymology

From down + style.

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