Antitruth
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Antitruth is a noun meaning That which is the opposite or negation of truth, especially of a mystical or religious truth.
Meaning
That which is the opposite or negation of truth, especially of a mystical or religious truth.
More Meanings
- Opposed to truth.
Example Sentences
Vasu's archetypal self is the extroller of a negative truth, or antitruth; "the mythical structure" becomes its primary technique.
The categories of exploitation, dominance, structure, repression, class, and socialist perspectives are not only not transmitted to the young, they are presented as antitruth, intellectually shallow, irrelevant, or utopian.
The identification of art as the specific antitruth, the secret subversive life of truth within the self-deluded formalism of Platonic thought, of course gives Nietzsche the polemical thrust needed to destroy the pretension of Platonism, which, as a will to truth, must be viewed not merely as an error but as nihilism.
Word Forms
- antitruths
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unreligion, antimyth, antitheology, antitrinitarian, antirationalism, trutherism.
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