asemic

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Definition of asemic

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of or relating to asemia.
    “Beginning by considering automatic writing alone, we soon found that it presented analogies to various asemic troubles (or brain-disturbances influencing the recognition and reproduction of spoken or written words), and, moreover, that these asemic disturbances, in their various types, were spread over all the processes of verbalisation.”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of or relating to asemia.
    “Beginning by considering automatic writing alone, we soon found that it presented analogies to various asemic troubles (or brain-disturbances influencing the recognition and reproduction of spoken or written words), and, moreover, that these asemic disturbances, in their various types, were spread over all the processes of verbalisation.”
  2. (not-comparable)Without semantic content; lacking meaning.
    “The asemic text, by definition, cannot be “decoded”, for the whole point of it is that there isn't any code, so the “reader” has to encode it.”
    “I have bypassed such significant developments as Wallace Stevens's aural experiments with playfully asemic language and his use of collage organization and almost Oulipian repetition-with-variation to explore epistemology in Harmonium (1923).”

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Etymology

From asemia + -ic.

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