Definition of "alternativity" []

• A characteristic of something having alternative connotations, akin to the representation of choice between two or more possibilities. (noun)
• A term of magma used to describe identifiable properties in an algebraic structure. (noun)

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• "It can lead to the creation of entirely new forms of social structure -- the coffee house or the commune -- but these have to be adopted by individuals, consolidated into subcultures, and able to survive a reactionary mainstream that is innately antagonistic to subcultures of alternativity."
• "That impurity of alternativity is where, for me, there’s a subtle difference between what I’m imagining and the alternative section in the Glasgow Tower Records as I remember it."
• "It’s the fact that Fopp has succeeded because it stepped outside the conventional indie record shop model of pure alternativity that intrigues me."