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- rareuncountableThe opposite of wit.
[…] that was rendered as a kind of brilliant, nonsensical antiwit.
1986, Jeffrey Howard Huberman, Late Victorian Farce, page 1362 more examples
If wit enhances meaning, this systematic reductiveness is antiwit, ultimately reduced to an infantile practical joke that backfires.
1977, George deForest Lord, Heroic Mockery: Variations on Epic Themes from Homer to Joyce, page 74"He leaves Bowie laughing partly at the soporific antiwit," wrote Crowe, "but mostly over a successful effort at producing the unproduceable. Less than a minute later, Iggy Pop is the farthest thing from his mind. Bowie's blanched bony face has already fallen into furrows. 'I am very, very bored,' he says."
2009, Joe Ambrose, Gimme Danger: The Story of Iggy Pop
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