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antimeaning

antimeaning noun: deliberate absence of meaning.

Noun

antimeaning (uncountable)

  1. Deliberate absence of meaning.
    • Freud's adoption of the spatial metaphor of a subterranean "unconscious" at the end of the nineteenth century codified an imaginable space of antimeaning in which socially unrealizable goals could nevertheless still convey power.2003, Marilyn C. Wesley, Violent Adventure: Contemporary Fiction by American Men, page 156
    • […] Lifton suggests that any 'action' became 'part of the general absurdity, the antimeaning' (Home from the War, p. 38). For a longer discussion of the effect of this antimeaning on the psyche of the returning soldier see pp. 38–40.2015, Carol Acton, Jane Potter, Working in a world of hurt

Origin of antimeaning

From anti- + meaning.

Questions about antimeaning

What does antimeaning mean?
Antimeaning means deliberate absence of meaning.
What part of speech is antimeaning?
Antimeaning is a noun.

Words near antimeaning in the dictionary

  1. antimatter rocket
  2. antimatter rockets
  3. antimatters
  4. antimaxima
  5. antimaximum
  6. antimeaning
  7. antimeasles
  8. antimeat
  9. antimechanism
  10. antimechanist
  11. antimechanistic

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