Unintentionality

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The characteristic of being unintentional. uncountable

    "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 globe proved unwilling to wait."

  2. 2
    A thing for which there was no intent. countable

    "[…] to cite it as one more proof of the dramatist's willingness to emulate the unintentionalities of living speech."

Etymology

From un- + intentionality.

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