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unintentionality

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character of being unintentional; absence of design or purpose.

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  • noun The characteristic of being unintentional; a thing for which there was no intent.

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Examples

  • And no unintentionality either: he didn't stumble into the invasion of Russia in 1941, his biggest blunder -- he had long planned it.

    Rajan Menon: Iran, the West, and the Lessons of the Great War Rajan Menon 2012

  • And no unintentionality either: he didn't stumble into the invasion of Russia in 1941, his biggest blunder -- he had long planned it.

    Rajan Menon: Iran, the West, and the Lessons of the Great War Rajan Menon 2012

  • Because the significance of an offense is dependent on whether or not the act was intentional, and because so many different kinds of intentionality and unintentionality exist, we can see that an offense as such tells us very little about the offender.

    Behavior in Public Places ERVING GOFFMAN 1963

  • At the other extreme, that of complete unintentionality, is the delict of the individual perceived as having an organic brain injury: his offense is not controllable by him, sometimes he cannot and hence does not appreciate its significance, and he may not be amenable to correction.

    Behavior in Public Places ERVING GOFFMAN 1963

  • They also assert that the college and, especially, Cristle Collins Judd, the dean for academic affairs, were so unhappy with his views that they aggressively pursued action against him even after he admitted having made errors -- ignoring evidence of unintentionality that should have scuttled the charges.

    Inside Higher Ed 2009

  • But then you read this example of pleading malice down to unintentionality: “‘Although I didn’t intend to offend anyone, obviously I did.

    For a Guilty Nation, Docu-Satire My Bad Profoundly Scorches 2006

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