asemic
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːmɪk
Adjective
asemic (not comparable)
- Of or relating to asemia.
- 1889, Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, volume 5, page 534:
- 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.
- Without semantic content; lacking meaning.
- 2013, Peter Barry, “Just Looking”, in Ian Davidson, Zoë Skoulding, editors, Placing Poetry, page 24:
- 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.
- 2015, Alan Golding, “3: Experimental Modernisms”, in Walter Kalaidjian, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry, page 37:
- 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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