unlove
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From un- (“not; lack of”) + love (noun).
Noun[edit]
unlove (uncountable)
- The lack, absence, or omission of love; lovelessness; enmity; neglect; hate.
- 2005, David Deida, Blue Truth:
- Disgust, nausea, loathing—some aspects of yourself and others surely deserve such abhorrent gut responses. But disgust doesn't create suffering— recoil does. Separation is the act of unlove.
- 2007, John Welwood, Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships:
- How do you experience this sense of unlove in your body? Notice the specific quality of the bodily […] Then see if you can let the feeling of unlove be there just as it is, without trying to fix it, change it, or judge it.
- 2011, Christopher Uhl, Teaching as if Life Matters:
- All the most intractable problems in human relationships can be traced back to “the mood of unlove,” a deep-seated suspicion most of us harbor […] The mood of unlove that Wellwood describes is pervasive in our culture.
Translations[edit]
lack of love
Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English unloven, equivalent to un- (reversal prefix) + love (verb).
Verb[edit]
unlove (third-person singular simple present unloves, present participle unloving, simple past and past participle unloved)
- (transitive) To lose one's love (for someone or something).
- 1847, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre[1]:
- I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester: I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me--because I might pass hours in his presence, and he would never once turn his eyes in my direction--because I saw all his attentions appropriated by a great lady, who scorned to touch me with the hem of her robes as she passed; who, if ever her dark and imperious eye fell on me by chance, would withdraw it instantly as from an object too mean to merit observation.
- 1874, Rhoda Broughton, Nancy[2]:
- And now, having once loved, she will be slow to unlove again.
- 1891 [1711], Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, The Spectator, Volume 2.[3]:
- They bid me love him, and I cannot unlove him.
Translations[edit]
lose one's love (for) — see also fall out of love