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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Chavkin felt herself drawn to Lempicka’s unconventionality and her appetite, describing her as an “incredibly ‘devourous’ woman.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
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
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
Mount Henneth is perhaps the liveliest of all: though its liveliness is partly achieved by less merely extravagant unconventionalities than this.
From The English Novel by George Saintsbury
Besides, it is possible to grow indifferent, even to the unconventionalities, and Kendal had been three years in the Quartier Latin.
From A Daughter of To-Day by Sara Jeannette Duncan
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
She affected art and lectures, and excursions to mountains, and campings-out, and unconventionalities, and no doubt had a good time in her way.
From Richard Vandermarck by Miriam Coles Harris
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