Anteverbal
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Prior to being verbal (using words). not-comparable, rare
"But his poetic mysticism is irreligious; God has become a "drug," a means of provoking the mystical nirvana. The dream state, the mere emptying out of content, is followed by a second, more active one. Out of the "lethal" experience is projected the intoxication immediately preceding the finding of words. While the Ego is suspended in the tranquillity of the dream, an "original vision" (Urgesicht) emerges from it: "In the original vision life is superseded (anteverbal source of instinct), life ...""
- 2 Preceding a verb. not-comparable, rare
"Among the eleven such relationships within binary tactical phrases are anteverbal (nominal or pronominal material preceding verbal material, and postverbal (nominal or pronominal material following verbal material), and when relationships like the anteverbal and postverbal ..."
Example
More examples"But his poetic mysticism is irreligious; God has become a "drug," a means of provoking the mystical nirvana. The dream state, the mere emptying out of content, is followed by a second, more active one. Out of the "lethal" experience is projected the intoxication immediately preceding the finding of words. While the Ego is suspended in the tranquillity of the dream, an "original vision" (Urgesicht) emerges from it: "In the original vision life is superseded (anteverbal source of instinct), life ...""
Etymology
From ante- + verbal.
More for "anteverbal"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.