antimeme

antimeme (plural antimemes)

1. (memetics, science fiction) a meme deployed to nullify or protect against another meme
   • 2004, William F. Harms, Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes, Cambridge University Press (→ISBN), page 65:

     Notable as well are periodic claims that memetics will make the world a better place, by creating an antimeme meme which will teach us to defend ourselves against the ravages of the selfish memes, ...

   • 2010, Michael Flynn, In the Country of the Blind, Macmillan (→ISBN)

     We have to start spreading antimemes.” “Fight fire with fire?” she said.

   • 1998, Christine Beckert, David Bischoff, Carroll & Brown, Jack Cady, Jennifer B. Crow, Charles De Lint, Paul Di Filippo, Alan Dean Foster, Esther M. Friesner, Geoffrey A. Landis, Sharianne Lewitt, Ardath Mayhar, The Best of Pirate Writings: Tales of Fantasy, Mystery & Science Fiction, Padwolf Pub Incorporated (→ISBN)

     I know it's every citizen's civic duty to keep his antimeme vaccinations up to date. But some perverse streak inside me (possibly, now that I think about it, an anti-antimeme meme) made me keep postponing my appointment until it was just too late.

   • 2003, David Hurst, On Westernism: An Ideology's Bid for World Dominion

     As an antimeme to both Christianity and these secular dominant ideologies, humanism in the West was, by the middle of the century able to gain dominance in what had become, effectively, a vacant niche.