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antiart

antiart adjective: opposed to art, or to the concept of fine art.

Adjective

antiart (comparative more antiart, superlative most antiart)

  1. Opposed to art, or to the concept of fine art
    • Some saw them, and other Rauschenberg works, as neo-Dada, antiart gestures, for example.1992 March 27, Fred Camper, “The Unordered Universe”, in Chicago Reader

Noun

antiart (uncountable)

  1. Art created in opposition to the concept of art
    • The weakness exists within culture itself, in the form of certain desires, dreams, and deliriums called up by "entertainment," mass culture, by certain types of antiart.1989 June 16, Gary Kamiya, “Reading: Children of the Void”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of antiart

comparativemore antiart
superlativemost antiart

Origin of antiart

From anti- + art.

Questions about antiart

What does antiart mean?
Antiart means opposed to art, or to the concept of fine art.
What part of speech is antiart?
Antiart can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antiart in the dictionary

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  3. antiarrhythmogenic
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  8. antiarteriosclerotic
  9. antiarthritic
  10. antiarthritics
  11. antiarthritis

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