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disentropy

disentropy noun: negentropy.

Noun

disentropy (uncountable)

  1. Negentropy.
    • 10 Sartre fails unfortunately to take this instance of disentropy contending with entropy as indicative of the starting-point required by his attempt to elaborate a materialist dialectic. Instead he[…]1990, Richard James Blackburn, The Vampire of Reason: An Essay in the Philosophy of History, Verso, →ISBN, page 20

Origin of disentropy

From dis- + entropy.

Questions about disentropy

What does disentropy mean?
Disentropy means negentropy.
What part of speech is disentropy?
Disentropy is a noun.

Words near disentropy in the dictionary

  1. disentrance
  2. disentranced
  3. disentrancement
  4. disentrances
  5. disentrancing
  6. disentropy
  7. disentwine
  8. disentwined
  9. disentwines
  10. disentwining
  11. disenvelop

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