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unchange

unchange verb: to revert or reverse a change.

Verb

unchange (third-person singular simple present unchanges, present participle unchanging, simple past and past participle unchanged)

  1. (transitive) To revert or reverse a change
    • Thus I experienced another important change, and one I never wished to unchange.1817, William Hutton, Catherine Hutton, The life of William Hutton
    • It is profoundly changed in ways that don't have to be unchanged or create counterdifficulties in the process.1994, United States, United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration. Subcommittee on Libraries and Memorials, Library of Congress Personnel Policies and Procedures: Joint Hearings...
  2. (intransitive) To not change; be unchanging; remain constant
    • In analysing them we discern various mechanisms which seem to us to cause them to "unchange," to be "things" and thus to survive.2013, G. Klir, Applied General Systems Research

Noun

unchange (countable and uncountable, plural unchanges)

  1. A situation where all remains constant; stasis.
    • It would seem that the full force of effectuation is felt only when the effect is change, and that when it is unchange the effectuation is felt to be attenuated and diminished;1971, William De Prez Inlow, Medicine and the world of ideas: an iatrophilosophy
    • If causation necessarily involved events or other particulars, unchanges would seem to create difficulties, since (according to Mellor at least) unchanges cannot be particular events, and thus when an unchange is caused (i.e., when we have stasis), there are no particulars that can be related and...2013, L.N. Oaklander, The Importance of Time, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    changelessness

Synonyms of unchange

Forms of unchange

Verb
third-person singular presentunchanges
present participleunchanging
past participleunchanged
pastunchanged
Noun
pluralunchanges

Origin of unchange

From un- + change.

Questions about unchange

What does unchange mean?
Unchange means to revert or reverse a change.
What part of speech is unchange?
Unchange can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of unchange?
The past tense of unchange is unchanged.

Words near unchange in the dictionary

  1. unchampioned
  2. unchance
  3. unchanced
  4. unchanciest
  5. unchancy
  6. unchange
  7. unchangeabilities
  8. unchangeability
  9. unchangeable
  10. unchangeableness
  11. unchangeables

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