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uncontrol en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- (“lack or absence of”) + control.

Meanings

  1. (uncommon, uncountable) The lack or absence of control.
    • She said comedy was “the victorious tilting of uncontrol against control.” 2007 May 22, Douglas Martin, “Dame Mary Douglas, 86, a Wide-Ranging Anthropologist, Is Dead”, in New York Times:
    • The brows raised exceedingly, signify uncontrol. 1889, Edmund Shaftesbury, Lessons in the Art of Facial Expressions: