unintentionality
Noun
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Noun
unintentionality
- (uncountable) The characteristic of being unintentional.
- 2010, Michael D. Gordin, Helen Tilley, Gyan Prakash, Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility, p. 23:
- 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.
- 2010, Michael D. Gordin, Helen Tilley, Gyan Prakash, Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility, p. 23:
- (countable) A thing for which there was no intent.
- 1982, Thomas G. Rosenmeyer, The Art of Aeschylus (page 108)
- […] 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)
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