antimeaning

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ meaning

Noun

antimeaning (uncountable)

1. Deliberate absence of meaning.
   • 2003, Marilyn C. Wesley, Violent Adventure: Contemporary Fiction by American Men, page 156:

     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.

   • 2015, Carol Acton, Jane Potter, Working in a world of hurt:

     […] Lifton suggests that any 'action' became 'part of the general absurdity, the antimeaning' (Home from the War, p. 38). For a longer discussion of the effect of this antimeaning on the psyche of the returning soldier see pp. 38–40.