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
Example Sentences
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Santee Alley was born out of unconventionality with its makeshift stores designed to break retail rules.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
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
Another was that her eldest daughter married a severe young man with jet-black hair and an appetite for unconventionality.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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
He chafed and groaned and found his pain sometimes almost more than he could bear under the audacious unconventionalities of Helena Langley.
From The Dictator by Justin McCarthy
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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