UNCONVENTIONALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unconventionality mean? 

• UNCONVENTIONALITY (noun)
  The noun UNCONVENTIONALITY has 2 senses:

1. originality by virtue of being unconventional

2. unorthodoxy by virtue of being unconventional

  Familiarity information: UNCONVENTIONALITY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCONVENTIONALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Originality by virtue of being unconventional

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("unconventionality" is a kind of...):

originality (the ability to think and act independently)

Antonym:

conventionality (unoriginality as a result of being too conventional)

Derivation:

unconventional (not conforming to accepted rules or standards)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unorthodoxy by virtue of being unconventional

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("unconventionality" is a kind of...):

heterodoxy; unorthodoxy (the quality of being unorthodox)

Antonym:

conventionality (orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional)

Derivation:

unconventional (not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention)

 Context examples 

The audacity and unconventionality of the storiettes was a shock to bourgeois morality and prejudice; but when Paris went mad over the immediate translation that was made, the American and English reading public followed suit and bought so many copies that Martin compelled the conservative house of Singletree, Darnley & Co. to pay a flat royalty of twenty-five per cent for a third book, and thirty per cent flat for a fourth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)