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unaction

unaction noun: lack or absence of action; an act of no action.

Noun

unaction (uncountable)

  1. Lack or absence of action; an act of no action
    • Elise's findings were published in 1965 as a chapter in Behavioral Science and Human Survival. Noting that this was, indeed, an “unaction,” as there was no real national organization, she found that many of the women who participated had not previously been active in civic or political...2005, Mary Lee Morrison, Elise Boulding: A Life in the Cause of Peace
    • The reformers and most of the Protestant commentators, on the contrary, more naturally understand the oil to signify the principle of a living faith, or the unaction of the Holy Spirit, or more generally: inward spiritual life the grace of God in the heart, and the lamps, the outward Christian...2014, John Peter Lange, Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scripture, Volume 6

Origin of unaction

From un- + action.

Questions about unaction

What does unaction mean?
Unaction means lack or absence of action; an act of no action.
What part of speech is unaction?
Unaction is a noun.

Words near unaction in the dictionary

  1. unactable
  2. unacted
  3. unactedness
  4. unacting
  5. unactinic
  6. unaction
  7. unactionable
  8. unactioned
  9. unactivatable
  10. unactivated
  11. unactive

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