Antisemantic

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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