antigenerative

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

anti- +‎ generative

Adjective[edit]

antigenerative (comparative more antigenerative, superlative most antigenerative)

  1. Opposing generation or procreation.
    • 1997, Michael Newbury, Figuring authorship in antebellum America, page 64:
      If the seed packets (and the absence of seeds in them) begin to suggest the generative sterility-in-mass-production, the incapacity of those in a female workforce to conceive, the antigenerative quality of this work becomes still more apparent when we consider in greater detail the paper that the mill produces.
    • 2010, Fanny Söderbäck, Feminist Readings of Antigone, page 76:
      Her desire is a desire to die, and the dark tomb is described as her bridal chamber. She is placed at the end of generations: an antigenerative force, childless, perverted, an incestuous offspring.