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Antisemantic
Definitions
- 1 Based on form or structure rather than meaning. not-comparable
"As Albert says to Pogo during the poetry contest: "I made it up. I made it rhyme. Now I gotta make it mean something?" While Albert is almost self-consciously taking a Dadaist artistic position during this interchange, it is also true that his antisemantic tendencies are constantly with him."
- 2 Devoid of meaning. not-comparable
"Clearly, if the conjunction of realism and antisemantic-realism had the consequence that truth is an accident, that would be a serious problem."
- 3 Hostile to meaning and clear communication; tending to conceal or undermine sense. not-comparable
"The event is repressed at the level of direct expression and can only make itself felt again in what Abraham and Torok call the “antisemantic” features of language."
- 4 Misconstruction of antisemitic. alt-of, misconstruction, not-comparable
"After the pastor's death, however, the complainant reported that antisemantic publications were again being sold."
Etymology
From anti- + semantic.
See also for "antisemantic"
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