antitruth

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ truth

Noun

antitruth (usually uncountable, plural antitruths)

  1. That which is the opposite or negation of truth, especially of a mystical or religious truth.
    • 1971 ·, Murray Burton Levin, Susan K. Levin, Political Hysteria America, page 267:
      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.
    • 2001, Amar Nath Prasad, Studies in Indian English Fiction, page 33:
      Vasu's archetypal self is the extroller of a negative truth, or antitruth; "the mythical structure" becomes its primary technique.
    • 2002, David Wittenberg, Philosophy, Revision, Critique, page 47:
      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.

Adjective

antitruth (comparative more antitruth, superlative most antitruth)

  1. Opposed to truth.
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