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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Sometime in my late teens, I dedicated myself to choosing small paths of unconventionality as a personal rebellion, as much as capitalism and social conditioning would allow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025
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
Frank, whom I studied in depth since the 1990s, has attracted me specifically because of the strangeness and unconventionality that surrounds him.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 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
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
"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
Her life was full of eager unconventionalities that drew down on her the frequent distrust of her co-religionists and fellow-townsmen.
From Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Saint of Siena Catherine
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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