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undesire

noun

Etymology

From un- + desire.

  1. derived from dēsīderō — “to long for, desire, feel the want of, miss, regret”
  2. derived from desirer
  3. inherited from desir
  4. prefixed as undesire — “un + desire”

Definitions

  1. Lack or absence of desire

    Lack or absence of desire; desirelessness.

    • Similarly, lines five and six, in the punctuation adopted, imply that the states of desire and undesire are antithetical.
    • “I am the pearl of the mine of undesire,” came the answer. “Now tell the disciples, My mine is the mine of undesire, and my pearl is the pearl of the mine of unpurpose.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for undesire. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA