Definition of "antiheroism" [antiheroism]

• The quality of being an antihero (noun)

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• ""The Red Sweet Wine of Youth: The Brave and Brief Lives of the War Poets" is a book about "the impact of that war on the sensibility of the artist"; it also sets out to show that Sassoon et al were not necessarily antiwar but antiheroism, as in the mocking title of one of Wilfred Owen's most famous poems, "Dulce et Decorum Est.""
• "The poets of the First World War were not so much antiwar as antiheroism."
• "Petronio's attempt at alchemy -- converting superheroism into antiheroism -- simply fails."