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Etymology
From asemia + -ic.
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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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