English

Noun

unforce ‎(plural unforces)

1. The lack or absence of force; forcelessness.
   • 1995, Martin Heidegger, Aristotle's Metaphysics [theta] 1-3:

     Force and unforce — the carrying along with of withdrawal.

   • 2012, Juan-Manuel Garrido, On Time, Being, and Hunger:

     The steretic alteration of force into unforce is accordingly of a different kind from, say, the turn from movement toward rest, not only because force and movement are different according to their particular content but because the proper possessive character of force is more inwardly bound up with loss and withdrawal.

   • 2014, Kevin McLaughlin, Poetic Force: Poetry After Kant:

     Nietzsche's approach to language as the medium of such forces (and unforces), and his interrogation of the connection ... is also accompanied by an unforce that must be felt in Kant's writing even as it remains (perhaps aptly) unstressed.