unprofessionality

English

Etymology

From unprofessional +‎ -ity.

Noun

unprofessionality (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of unprofessionalism.
    • 1859 January, C. C. Dills, “Professional Advertising”, in J[onathan] Taft, Geo[rge] Watt, editors, The Dental Register of the West, volume XIII, number 7, Cincinnati, Oh.: J[ohn] T. Toland, [], published 1860, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 310:
      We want no other advertising than facts known; this we do want, and—if we mistake not the marked inquietude of the “dignified silence” with which the youth and energy of our profession is wont to “wait for the world to come to them”—we will have it. The supercilious and such as can afford it, may raise the hue and cry of unprofessionality! may quack quackery and quacks! may play on their harp of a thousand strings” (the m-e-d-i-c-a-l profession!) and make asses of themselves, may ignore circumstances calling for more energy, effort, advertising to secure business than they put forth; []
    • 1923 May, Enid Greenham, “Pupil Nurses’ Department: Essay on Nursing Ethics”, in Helen Randal, editor, The Canadian Nurse: A Monthly Journal for the Nursing Profession in Canada, volume XIX, number 5, Vancouver, B.C.: Canadian National Association of Trained Nurses, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 289:
      An unprofessional nurse casts a slur upon her school, for unprofessionality breeds carelessness.
    • 1994, John Barth, “Act 2”, in Once Upon a Time: A Floating Opera, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 259:
      It was Jay, once he had matriculated as a journalism major and duly signed on with the Hopkins News-Letter, who pointed out to me the unprofessionality of our department’s program in that line and the particular meaninglessness of my majoring therein, as I evidently had no taste for newspaper work.