transvaluation

noun

transvaluation

noun

Etymology From trans- + valuation.

1

A change of values; a revaluation.

  • 1918, Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, trans. H. L. Mencken Let us not under-estimate this fact: that we ourselves, we free spirits, are already a “transvaluation of all values,” a visualized declaration of war and victory against all the old concepts of “true” and “not true.”
  • A similar transvaluation took place with the myth of Antichrist.1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 118:
Related terms
transvalue, revaluation

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