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unorthodoxy

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Unorthodoxy (noun) means the state of going against usual or accepted beliefs and practices.

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The state of going against usual or accepted beliefs and practices.

"It was indeed Aubrey's principal hobby, and allowed him to air his unorthodoxies." — Geoffrey Goodman, Aubrey Morris (2009)

"Where Ms. Rosler’s works exert a fervent but predictable didacticism, Ms. Wilding’s environment conveys an infectious unorthodoxy, a relief from the hierarchical rule of modernist aesthetics over previous decades." — Ken Johnson, Striking When the Spirit Was Hot (2008)

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