antispace

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ space

Noun

antispace (countable and uncountable; plural antispaces)

1. A space or region that violates the norms or conventions of spaces.
   • 2005, Evgeny Dobrenko, Eric Naiman, The landscape of Stalinism: the art and ideology of Soviet space (page 90)

     It is antispace, home of the enemy, a creature without a face or with the face of a beast.

   • 2008, Dag Øistein Endsjø, Primordial landscapes, incorruptible bodies (page 36)

     The wilderness as antispace

2. (mathematics) A kind of topological space.
   • 1968, Evert Wattel, The compactness operator in set theory and topology

     There exists a natural one to one mapping from the class of antispaces onto itself […]