antisemantic

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antisemantic

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From anti- + semantic.

adjective

  1. not comparable Based on form or structure rather than meaning. 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. not comparable Devoid of meaning. Clearly, if the conjunction of realism and antisemantic-realism had the consequence that truth is an accident, that would be a serious problem.
  3. not comparable Hostile to meaning and clear communication; tending to conceal or undermine sense. 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, not comparable Misconstruction of antisemitic After the pastor's death, however, the complainant reported that antisemantic publications were again being sold.

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@misc{antisemantic_2026,
  title = {antisemantic},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/antisemantic},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}