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antitruth en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + truth.

Meanings

  1. Opposed to truth.

Forms

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antitruth en · NOUN

Etymology

From anti- + truth.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) That which is the opposite or negation of truth, especially of a mystical or religious truth.
    • The categories of exploitation, dominance, structure, repression, class, and socialist perspectives are not only not transmitted to the young, they are presented as antitruth, intellectually shallow, irrelevant, or utopian. 1971 ·, Murray Burton Levin, Susan K. Levin, Political Hysteria America, page 267:
    • Vasu's archetypal self is the extroller of a negative truth, or antitruth; "the mythical structure" becomes its primary technique. 2001, Amar Nath Prasad, Studies in Indian English Fiction, page 33:
    • The identification of art as the specific antitruth, the secret subversive life of truth within the self-deluded formalism of Platonic thought, of course gives Nietzsche the polemical thrust needed to destroy the pretension of Platonism, which, as a will to truth, must be viewed not merely as an error but as nihilism. 2002, David Wittenberg, Philosophy, Revision, Critique, page 47:

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