unpower
unpower noun: lack of power; weakness.
Noun
unpower (uncountable)
- Lack of power; weakness.
- 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 — [...]1995, Kenneth Maly, The Path of Archaic Thinking
- 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 [...]1996, Bradley S. Epps, Significant violence
Verb
unpower (third-person singular simple present unpowers, present participle unpowering, simple past and past participle unpowered)
- To remove the power from; power down or power off
- “Desperate to retrieve the webscrolls and unpower the staff, which could only be done by tossing it into The Saline Sea, [...]”2010, Deron Rennick, The Webscrolls of Dim Sorcery
Forms of unpower
| third-person singular present | unpowers |
|---|---|
| present participle | unpowering |
| past participle | unpowered |
| past | unpowered |
Origin of unpower
From un- (lack of) + power.
From un- (reversive prefix) + power.
Questions about unpower
- What does unpower mean?
- Unpower means lack of power; weakness.
- What part of speech is unpower?
- Unpower can be a noun or a verb.
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