disoperation
nounEtymology From dis- + operation, by analogy to cooperation.
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A lack of engagement or interaction, and/or antagonism toward cohesion.
- 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.1935, Carl Murchison, Warder Clyde Allee, A Handbook of Social Psychology - Part 3, page 41:
- When we discuss relations between fungi and other plants in the first place we should establish whether cooperation, disoperation or competition occur here [ 81 ].1975, Henryk Orloś, Forest Fungi against the Background of Environment:
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- 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.1980, Adam Apple, A Megasynthesis, page 332:
- 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.2013, Sas Mays, Libraries, Literatures, and Archives, page 134: