Unlove
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Unlove is a noun meaning The lack, absence, or omission of love; lovelessness; enmity; neglect; hate.
Meaning
The lack, absence, or omission of love; lovelessness; enmity; neglect; hate.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To lose one's love (for someone or something).
Example Sentences
They bid me love him, and I cannot unlove him.
And now, having once loved, she will be slow to unlove again.
Disgust, nausea, loathing—some aspects of yourself and others surely deserve such abhorrent gut responses. But disgust doesn't create suffering— recoil does. Separation is the act of unlove.
All the most intractable problems in human relationships can be traced back to “the mood of unlove,” a deep-seated suspicion most of us harbor […] The mood of unlove that Wellwood describes is pervasive in our culture.
Word Forms
- unloves
- unloving
- unloved
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unhate, unlovedness, lovelessness, lack-love, nonlove, unaffection.
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