unforce

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noun

The lack or absence of force; forcelessness.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

noununforce (countable and uncountable, plural unforces)

plural unforces

  1. countableuncountableThe lack or absence of force; forcelessness.

    Force and unforce — the carrying along with of withdrawal.

    1995, Martin Heidegger, Aristotle's Metaphysics [theta] 1-3
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    The steretic alteration of force into unforce is accordingly of a different kind from, say, the turn from movement toward rest, not only because force and movement are different according to their particular content but because the proper possessive character of force is more inwardly bound up with loss and withdrawal.

    2012, Juan-Manuel Garrido, On Time, Being, and Hunger

    Nietzsche's approach to language as the medium of such forces (and unforces), and his interrogation of the connection ... is also accompanied by an unforce that must be felt in Kant's writing even as it remains (perhaps aptly) unstressed.

    2014, Kevin McLaughlin, Poetic Force: Poetry After Kant

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Origin

From un- (“lack or absence of”) + force.

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