unintentionality

noun — 2 senses

unintentionality

noun

Etymology From un- + intentionality.

1

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 globe proved unwilling to wait.2010, Michael D. Gordin, Helen Tilley, Gyan Prakash, Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility, page 23:

2

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:

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