unprofessionalness

From unprofessional +‎ -ness.

unprofessionalness (uncountable)

1. Synonym of unprofessionalism.
   • 1883, Margaret Vandegrift [pseudonym; Margaret Thomson Janvier], chapter XXIX, in The Queen’s Body-Guard. A Story of American Life for Girls., Philadelphia, Pa.: Henry T[roth] Coates & Co., →OCLC, page 368:

     “[…] if I am questioned, I shall merely say that I designed it myself, with a little assistance from a professional architect, whose intentions were good, but who had never been called upon to live in a house of his own planning. Will that answer?” / "“Perfectly,” replied Mr. Brook; “it will amply account for the—well, we will say the unprofessionalness of the plan.”

   • 1968, P[eter] Ferriday, “W[illiam] R[ichard] Lethaby”, in John Summerson, editor, Concerning Architecture: Essays on Architectural Writers and Writing Presented to Nikolaus Pevsner, Baltimore, Md.: Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, →OCLC, page 161:

     Lethaby was enchanted by the gaiety, by the casualness, by the unprofessionalness (in the qualifications, frock-coat sense) of the Rossetti, Morris, Webb, Burne-Jones set.

   • 1970, Leo M. Schell, “Preventing and Correcting Word Identification Problems”, in William K[irtley] Durr, editor, Reading Difficulties: Diagnosis, Correction, and Remediation, Newark, Del.: International Reading Association, →OCLC, “Reading Difficulties: Correction” section, page 175:

     Psychology has unanimously affirmed that the more practice situations resemble use situations, the better the learning will function in the use situations. Ignoring so fundamental a principle only impedes mastery and attests to slovenly unprofessionalness.