Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unrelation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-re-la-tion
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Lack or absence of relation

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Related to the more harmonic relation, the given relation "is unsatisfactory and therefore results as unrelation" (p. 216). Therefore a dialectic emerges between a superior and an inferior relation, which, compared with the former, is unrelation."
"In their respective positions, these relations describe the realities of divine-human unrelation, divine-human relation, human self-relation, and human social relation."
"A better illustration of Lawrence's 'ignorance', and a fault which corrupts his whole philosophy of human relations — which is hardly anything but a philosophy of human relations and unrelations — is his hopeless attempt to find some mode in which two persons — of the opposite sex, and then as a venture of despair, of the same sex — may be spiritually united."

Etymology

From un- (“lack of”) + relation.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

unrelations (plural)

Questions

What does unrelation mean?: Lack or absence of relation
Where does unrelation come from?: From un- (“lack of”) + relation.

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