nonarranged

English

Etymology

non- +‎ arranged

Adjective

nonarranged (not comparable)

1. Not arranged.
   1. (of a marriage) Based on a love match; in which the people getting married choose each other.
      • 1993, Anne Maydan Nicotera, Interpersonal Communication in Friend and Mate Relationships, →ISBN:

        Korean culture includes three types of mate relationship: arranged, nonarranged (love), and eclectic (a combination of arranged and love).

      • 1994, Lee-Jay Cho, Motoo Yada, Tradition and change in the Asian family, page 116:

        Having had a nonarranged marriage was found to be associated with favorable attitudes toward singlehood.

      • 2016, Eric B. Shiraev, David A. Levy, Cross-Cultural Psychology, →ISBN:

        Suppose a group of researchers wants to find psychological and behavioral similarities and differences between arranged marriages and nonarranged (love-based) marriages in the United States in a sample of families of Indian descent (Regan et al., 2012).

   2. Not in any particular order, random.
      • 1966, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Phenomena in .in Ionized Gases:

        This was revealed only in the experiments of ion bombardment of single crystals, because a polycrystalline material, even though its microcrystallites have a regular structure, in fact behaves like a nonarranged, random system.

      • 1972, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica - Volume 17, page 537:

        The intermediate layer is considerably thicker and its crystals are nonarranged, 1 to 2 microns in size.

      • 2013, Brook Ziporyn, Beyond Oneness and Difference, →ISBN, pages 59–60:

        The meaning of tianli here is perhaps closer to something like, “spontaneous (nonfabricated, nonarranged, nonteleological) coherence.”