Antimeme
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Antimeme is a noun meaning (memetics, science fiction) A meme deployed to nullify or protect against another meme.
Meaning
(memetics, science fiction) A meme deployed to nullify or protect against another meme.
More Meanings
- (Internet slang) An image macro which intentionally subverts one's expectations by not including a joke; a meme antijoke.
- (memetics, science fiction) A unit of information that prevents itself from being spread, either due to its contents, (e.g, a password or encrypted document,) or a secondary mechanism that prevents its transmission. (e.g, by erasing itself from any mind that it enters.)
Example Sentences
We have to start spreading antimemes.” “Fight fire with fire?” she said.
my favorite parts of these viral memes are the antimemes that appear after we all get sick of them lol
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people from spreading it.
SCP-055 is a "self-keeping secret" or "anti-meme". Information about SCP-055's physical appearance as well as its nature, behavior, and origins is self-classifying.
Word Forms
- antimemes
- anti-meme
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include countermeme, episememe, meme, memification, memescape, mimeme.
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