nonstyle

English

Etymology

non- +‎ style

Noun

nonstyle (countable and uncountable, plural nonstyles)

1. That which is not a style; lack of style.
   • 1995, Lilian R. Furst, All Is True: The Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction, page 147:

     Despite the findings of recent critics, who have taken issue with the word, disputing its appropriateness to realism, this perception of the characteristic style of realism as a nonstyle has nevertheless been hard to dislodge.

   • 1999, Amelia Jones, Andrew Stephenson, Performing the body/performing the text, page 144:

     Dada and Surrealism and other nonstyles

   • 2002, John Hargraves, Music in the works of Broch, Mann, and Kafka, page 52:

     His nonstyle is painfully evident when he is less than inspired: the "Faust" overture: empty bombast; the Wesendonck-Lieder: empty sentimentality.

   • 2008, Montgomery Van Wart, Leadership in Public Organizations: An Introduction, page 274:

     A laissez-faire style, characterized by passive indifference about the task and subordinates, is essentially a nonstyle.

   • 2012, Zarena Aslami, The Dream Life of Citizens, page 141:

     The novel reveals its contradictory theory of representation when the narrator, describing the young Evadne's notebook, praises its style as a nonstyle […]