• Antimeaning

    Origin

    - + anti + meaning

    Full definition of antimeaning

    Noun

    antimeaning

    (uncountable)
    1. absence of meaning.
      • 2003, Marilyn C. Wesley, Violent Adventure: Contemporary Fiction by American Men (page 156)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.
      • 2015, Carol Acton, ‎Jane Potter, Working in a world of hurt... 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.
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