antimeaning

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noun

Deliberate absence of meaning.

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Meanings

nounantimeaning (uncountable)
  1. uncountableDeliberate 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
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    […] 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

From anti- + meaning.

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APA

antimeaning. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antimeaning

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“antimeaning.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antimeaning. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “antimeaning,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/antimeaning.

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