Unpower

Quick meaning: Unpower is a noun meaning Lack of power; weakness.

Meaning

Lack of power; weakness.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To remove the power from; power down or power off

Example Sentences

“Desperate to retrieve the webscrolls and unpower the staff, which could only be done by tossing it into The Saline Sea, [...]”

But what does it mean to question the question of the principle of reason? Here, it seems to me, we may risk introducing the concept (but is it a concept?) of unpower.

Paradoxically, it is this unpower that proceeds to produce the suppressive superpower of metaphysics and that inscribes in Sallis' s work or in his "deconstructive" strategy — I would even say, in his hyperdeconstructive strategy — [...]

I have referred to Makbara 's (lost) inspiration as 'unpower', a term that I take from Derrida's reading of Artaud. As Derrida explains, unpower is not simply a lack of power, not merely impotence or verbal sterility; unpower is actually inspiration [...]

Word Forms

• unpowers
• unpowering
• unpowered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include powerlessness, strengthlessness, unmight, inability, impotence, mightlessness.

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