Antimeaning

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Deliberate absence of meaning. uncountable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From anti- + meaning.

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