nonstyle

plural nonstyles

1. countableuncountableThat which is not a style; lack of style.

   Dada and Surrealism and other nonstyles

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

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   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.

   1995, Lilian R. Furst, All Is True: The Claims and Strategies of Realist Fiction, page 147

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

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

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

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

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

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