unconference
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.74 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A conference that attempts to avoid the traditional drawbacks of conferences, such as high entry fees, excessive formality, and bias due to sponsors.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "Think of the Kalamazoo unconference, assuming that the official videotape tells it like it was."
- "As a marketer, the unconference tells me more about what's hot in the marketplace than any other tool I have."
- "But the fact that there were predetermined sessions went against the whole "unconference" idea, a few attendees said. For them, it was still too much structure."
- "Unconferences differ from conferences in the way they are organized and the way in which participation takes place. In a traditional conference, there are typically hundreds of attendees. Unconferences, however, have participants who also contribute to the unconference by initiating a discussion, sharing their own experiences, debating, and so on."
Etymology
From un- + conference.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un