Anti-story
a narrative of short-story length that makes no effort to follow a plot and ignores structural conventions, character motivations, and the like.
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- Anti-stress
importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth. phonetics. emphasis in the form of prominent relative loudness of a syllable or a word as a result of special effort in utterance. prosody. accent or emphasis on syllables in a metrical pattern; beat. emphasis in […]
- Anti-strophe
the part of an ancient greek choral ode answering a previous strophe, sung by the chorus when returning from left to right. the movement performed by the chorus while singing an antistrophe. prosody. the second of two metrically corresponding systems in a poem. compare (def 3). noun (in ancient greek drama) the second of two […]
- Anti-supernaturalism
character or agency. belief in the doctrine of or divine agency as manifested in the world, in human events, religious revelation, etc. historical examples he started the index, a journal of free religious inquiry and anti-supernaturalism, at toledo, but since 1874 at boston. a biographical dictionary of freethinkers of all ages and nations joseph mazzini […]
- Anti-theoretical
of, relating to, or consisting in ; not practical (distinguished from ). existing only in ; hypothetical. given to, forming, or dealing with ; speculative. adjective of or based on theory lacking practical application or actual existence; hypothetical using or dealing in theory; impractical adj. 1610s, from late latin theoreticus “of or pertaining to theory,” […]
- Anti-thetical
of the nature of or involving . directly opposed or contrasted; opposite. adj. “containing an ant-thesis,” c.1600, from greek ant-thetikos “setting in opposition,” from ant-thetos “placed in opposition,” from ant-thesis (see ant-thesis).