disoperation

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

dis- +‎ operation, by analogy to cooperation.

Noun[edit]

disoperation (uncountable)

  1. A lack of engagement or interaction, and/or antagonism toward cohesion.
    • 1935, Carl Murchison, Warder Clyde Allee, A Handbook of Social Psychology - Part 3, page 41:
      Disoperation includes the entire range of unfavorable coactions from complete destruction at one extreme to competitions of minor intensity and slight disadvantage at the other.
    • 1975, Henryk Orloś, Forest Fungi against the Background of Environment:
      When we discuss relations between fungi and other plants in the first place we should establish whether cooperation, disoperation or competition occur here [ 81 ].
    • 1980, Adam Apple, A Megasynthesis, page 332:
      Along the continuum of behavior from total disoperation to total cooperation, we must make another quantum leap since our established modes and mad emphasis on competition has become disoperative.
    • 2013, Sas Mays, Libraries, Literatures, and Archives, page 134:
      The 125-year-long discourse around an institution's experience of organising fiction has a weight and a traction of its own: it makes a history—or, rather, a perpetual prehistory—of the disoperation of classification for the arrangement of fiction, a disoperation which isolates fiction classification from modern precepts of rationality, preventing its escape from its own prehistorical conditions.