unlove

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The lack, absence, or omission of love

   The lack, absence, or omission of love; lovelessness; enmity; neglect; hate.

   • 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.
   • 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.
   • 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.
2. 2

   To lose one's love (for someone or something).

   • And now, having once loved, she will be slow to unlove again.
   • They bid me love him, and I cannot unlove him.

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