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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unconventionality

1849, with reference to Shelley, from unconventional + -ity.

Wiktionary
unconventionality

n. The state of being unconventional.

WordNet
unconventionality
  1. n. originality by virtue of being unconventional [ant: conventionality]

  2. unorthodoxy by virtue of being unconventional [ant: conventionality]

Usage examples of "unconventionality".

American unconventionality, her audacity, her wealth, and generosity, set all Paris by the ears.

He was too far gone in unconventionality to spend a night under a decent roof.

It was unconventional, but perhaps because he was so weary of the ordinary young ladies who invariably smiled and fluttered the moment he approached them, and were so perfectly ready to make much of him, this unconventionality attracted him.

The very unconventionality and flamboyance of this first project of ours made it difficult to attract orders.

Is it not rather the cold, luminous truth that the American girl found out that Bar Harbor, without her presence, was for certain reasons, such as unconventionality, a bracing air, opportunity for boating, etc.

And it was true that fashion for the moment elected to be pleased with unconventionality, finding a great zest in freedom, and making a joke of every inconvenience.

A new image replaced it almost instantlya sleek, lethal shape that looked as if it should have come from deep water with a mouth full of fangsand all three of the junior officers straightened in their chair as its unconventionality registered.

And given the unconventionality of her assignment, he mused, her command style was probably entirely appropriate.

Banks, and the lighter foppishness of Winslow and Crosby, not to mention Senor Perkins' more pronounced unconventionality, appeared as burlesques of their own characters in a play.

They, too, have been charged with discursiveness, with disregard of chronological order (which is in itself a crime), with unconventionality of form (which is an impropriety).