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unreliance

unreliance noun: absence of reliance.

Noun

unreliance (uncountable)

  1. Absence of reliance.
    • To be unconditioned by relation, on Kant's […] account, is to be 'not inherent [in something else] but self-subsistent', which would imply, as with the noumenal subject, an unreliance on anything else for existence.2016, M. Albahari, Analytical Buddhism: The Two-tiered Illusion of Self, page 45

Origin of unreliance

From un- + reliance.

Questions about unreliance

What does unreliance mean?
Unreliance means absence of reliance.
What part of speech is unreliance?
Unreliance is a noun.

Words near unreliance in the dictionary

  1. unreliable narrator
  2. unreliable narrators
  3. unreliableness
  4. unreliables
  5. unreliably
  6. unreliance
  7. unreliant
  8. unrelievable
  9. unrelievableness
  10. unrelievably
  11. unrelieveable

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