Meaning of antiwit | Babel Free

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The opposite of wit.

rare, uncountable

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“If wit enhances meaning, this systematic reductiveness is antiwit, ultimately reduced to an infantile practical joke that backfires.”

“[…] that was rendered as a kind of brilliant, nonsensical antiwit.”

“"He leaves Bowie laughing partly at the soporific antiwit," wrote Crowe, "but mostly over a successful effort at producing the unproduceable. Less than a minute later, Iggy Pop is the farthest thing from his mind. Bowie's blanched bony face has already fallen into furrows. 'I am very, very bored,' he says."”

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