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unintentionality

unintentionality noun: the characteristic of being unintentional.

Noun

unintentionality (countable and uncountable, plural unintentionalities)

  1. (uncountable) The characteristic of being unintentional.
    • But this utopia, drawing on the unconscious operations of Adam Smith's invisible hand, and in sharp n sharp contrast to the hyperconsciousness of the utopian "intentional community," gambled everything on the unintentionality of its universal panacea, for which any number of populations around the...2010, Michael D. Gordin, Helen Tilley, Gyan Prakash, Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility, page 23
  2. (countable) A thing for which there was no intent.
    • […] to cite it as one more proof of the dramatist's willingness to emulate the unintentionalities of living speech.1982, Thomas G. Rosenmeyer, The Art of Aeschylus, page 108

Forms of unintentionality

pluralunintentionalities

Origin of unintentionality

From un- + intentionality.

Questions about unintentionality

What does unintentionality mean?
Unintentionality means the characteristic of being unintentional.
What part of speech is unintentionality?
Unintentionality is a noun.
What is the plural of unintentionality?
The plural of unintentionality is unintentionalities.

Words near unintentionality in the dictionary

  1. unintensive
  2. unintent
  3. unintention
  4. unintentional
  5. unintentionalities
  6. unintentionality
  7. unintentionally
  8. unintentionalness
  9. unintentioned
  10. unintentions
  11. unintently

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