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antimeaning en · NOUN

Etymology

From anti- + meaning.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Deliberate absence of meaning.
    • […] 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:
    • 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: