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Meanings of unconventionality in English

Unorthodoxy by virtue of being unconventional.

        Usage of unconventionality in English
        1
        She still preserved her charming unconsciousness of the unconventionality of her situation.
        The Squirrel-Cage
        2
        The essence of greatness is unconventionality, and restlessness is now becoming conventional.
        At Large
        3
        Their absolute frankness and vigorous unconventionality of thought and expression charmed me.
        Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very p...
        4
        To my idea unconventionality is the most charming thing a woman can have.
        If Only etc.
        5
        Let's see if his authenticity and unconventionality can reach beyond already left-leaning people.
        The Guardian
        6
        He has always gone in for unconventionality, and parents nowhere, and so forth.
        A Room with a View
        7
        But with the IVth Dynasty we no longer look for unconventionality.
        History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the ...
        8
        She wondered what he thought of her and became aware of her unconventionality.
        The Garden of Allah
        9
        Of course one does not desire that conventional people should strive after unconventionality.
        The Upton Letters
        10
        His rollicking frankness, his audacious unconventionality, are enough to account for the neglect.
        The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories:...
        11
        The couple were by then middle-aged romantics of an inventive unconventionality.
        The Guardian
        12
        If she marries the right man he won't mind her unconventionality.
        December Love
        13
        The unconventionality of his manners was in keeping with the originality of his figure.
        Alfred Tennyson
        14
        She was still in doubt as to how to treat this act of unconventionality.
        Soldiers of Fortune
        15
        For the spirit of Christ is the spirit of freedom, of elasticity, of unconventionality.
        The Upton Letters
        16
        But her chief fault, in his eyes, was her unconventionality.
        A Daughter of the Snows
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