"antiwit" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From anti- + wit.",
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          "ref": "1977, George deForest Lord, Heroic Mockery: Variations on Epic Themes from Homer to Joyce, page 74:",
          "text": "If wit enhances meaning, this systematic reductiveness is antiwit, ultimately reduced to an infantile practical joke that backfires.",
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          "ref": "1986, Jeffrey Howard Huberman, Late Victorian Farce, page 136:",
          "text": "[…] that was rendered as a kind of brilliant, nonsensical antiwit.",
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          "ref": "2009, Joe Ambrose, Gimme Danger: The Story of Iggy Pop:",
          "text": "\"He leaves Bowie laughing partly at the soporific antiwit,\" wrote Crowe, \"but mostly over a successful effort at producing the unproduceable. Less than a minute later, Iggy Pop is the farthest thing from his mind. Bowie's blanched bony face has already fallen into furrows. 'I am very, very bored,' he says.\"",
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        "The opposite of wit."
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        "(rare) The opposite of wit."
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        "(rare) The opposite of wit."
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