Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

antimeaning

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: an-timean-ing
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Deliberate absence of meaning.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."
"[…] 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."

Etymology

From anti- + meaning.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: anti

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does antimeaning mean?: Deliberate absence of meaning.
Where does antimeaning come from?: From anti- + meaning.

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