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untime¹

Where it comes from

From Middle English untime, untyme, ontyme, from Old English untīma (“an unseasonable time”), from Proto-Germanic *untīmô, equivalent to un- + time. Cognate with Old Norse útími (dialectal Norwegian otime).

noun untimes · un-time

  1. countable, uncountable The absence of time; timelessness. Actually, his apocalypse is a reverse cosmogony: he features himself as a monstrous Leviathan swallowing all the faithful, and the Untime celebrated by "unceasing" clock-chiming seals the reign of death and the return to pre-cosmogonic chaos. Death, not life, is what the imam has to offer to the fai

    Similar: atemporality

  2. India, South, countable, often, uncountable, used in plural A wrong time; an unsuitable or improper time.

Similar: extratemporality

verb untimes · untiming · untimed · un-time

  1. transitive To cause to be done at the wrong time. […] which untimes the pleasant melodies of musical harmony, […]

untime²

Where it comes from

From Middle English untime, from Old English untīme.

adjective more untime · most untime · un-time

  1. India, South Untimely. Untime cravings

    Similar: ill-timed, inopportune

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Similar: extratemporality

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@misc{untime_2026,
  title = {untime},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/untime},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}