Untrust vs Entrust - What's the difference?
untrust | entrust |
Lack or absence of trust; mistrust; distrust.
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As a noun untrust
is lack or absence of trust; mistrust; distrust.As an adjective untrust
is faithless; distrustful.As a verb entrust is
to trust to the care of.untrust
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), probably a modified form of (etyl) .Noun
(-)- Alternatively, untrust corresponds to the space between distrust and trust, in which an agent is positively trusted, but not sufficiently to cooperate with.
- The absence of trust is sometimes called untrust' (Marsh and Dibben, 2005). As most of the trust literature focuses on the positive aspect of trust, it is restricted to the simple dichotomy between trust and ' untrust .
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