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^[1]:

     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.