unconventionality
Americannoun
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unconventionalities
plural
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disregard for convention; the state or quality of being inconsistent with customs, rules, etc.; originality.
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something unconventional, as an act.
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of unconventionality
First recorded in 1850–55; un- 1 + conventionality
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Also, working from home, together, was seen as exciting to some — but the unconventionality of it all eventually faded.
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2024
With Hawkins’s alternately elfin and flinty performance at its center, “The Lost King” winds up being a paean to amateurism and unconventionality.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2023
Valle, who is transgender and nonbinary, cited the stone’s unconventionality as one reason she chose to use it in the ring for Orci, who is nonbinary.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 2, 2022
The city, whose openness to unconventionality and hunger for information served as a muse for his holistic teachings, has kept him alive in so many ways, even six years after his death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2022
She knew Sasha would be fine at school—if anything, the skirts gave them a little extra cachet at Maybeck, where unconventionality was an asset.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
Among the many unconventionalities of Donald Trump’s campaign was the way he used his daughter as a surrogate spouse.
From Slate ● Nov. 11, 2016
Miss Alathea, on the day after the great race, sat waiting for the Colonel in the handsome old library of Woodlawn, worrying about her unconventionalities of the preceding day.
From In Old Kentucky by Edward Marshall
"You run your unconventionalities always on the public race-course, in sight of the grand stand packed with the conventionalities."
From In the Wilderness by Robert Smythe Hichens
Gertrude suppressed her astonishment; she felt somehow overawed by the unconventionalities of the West.
From The Daughter of a Magnate by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman
The doctor was his friend; and Jim's friends are generally ready to—well, to overlook unconventionalities.
From The Brightener by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
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