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uninfluence

uninfluence noun: the lack or absence of influence.

Noun

uninfluence (uncountable)

  1. The lack or absence of influence.
    • This result justifies the negative result of the well-known Lodge's experiment to detect ether drag by rapidly rotating a heavy iron spheroid, and also predicts the uninfluence of the rotation of the earth, the sun and the Jupiter on the velocity of the ray of light passing by their edges.1922, Japanese Journal of Physics, volumes 1-3, page 11
    • Such experiment was devoted to reveal the influence (or uninfluence) of the terrestrial motion on the speed of light.2013, G. Rizzi, M.L. Ruggiero, Relativity in Rotating Frames, page 156

Verb (1)

uninfluence (third-person singular simple present uninfluences, present participle uninfluencing, simple past and past participle uninfluenced)

  1. (transitive) To exert no influence (on).
    • How a minute dose should thus affect a paralyzed nerve, while it uninfluences it in its ordinary state, is a phenomenon we cannot explain.1869, Edwin Grant Dexter, Conduct and the Weather

Verb (2)

uninfluence (third-person singular simple present uninfluences, present participle uninfluencing, simple past and past participle uninfluenced)

  1. (transitive) To remove or undo the influence of.
    • Indeed, this is one of the best ways to uninfluence people and lose friends.1961, Research Needs in Executive Selection: A Symposium, page 37
    • U.S. advertising agencies and businessmen were criticized last Tuesday (Feb. 10) for helping to "uninfluence people" in Europe and around the world, and for fostering the alienation people in other lands have for the U.S.1970, Broadcasting, volume 78, page 72

Forms of uninfluence

third-person singular presentuninfluences
present participleuninfluencing
past participleuninfluenced
pastuninfluenced

Origin of uninfluence

From un- + influence.

Questions about uninfluence

What does uninfluence mean?
Uninfluence means the lack or absence of influence.
What part of speech is uninfluence?
Uninfluence can be a noun or a verb.

Words near uninfluence in the dictionary

  1. uninflectable
  2. uninflected
  3. uninflectedness
  4. uninflecting
  5. uninflicted
  6. uninfluence
  7. uninfluenceability
  8. uninfluenceable
  9. uninfluenced
  10. uninfluences
  11. uninfluencing

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