uncontrol

English

Etymology

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

Noun

uncontrol (uncountable)

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