Unforce

Quick meaning: Unforce is a noun meaning The lack or absence of force; forcelessness.

Meaning

The lack or absence of force; forcelessness.

Example Sentences

Force and unforce — the carrying along with of withdrawal.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• unforces

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include forcelessness, unaffection, strengthlessness, unenforcement, nonenforcement, unwill.

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