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What do Kierkegaard and Hegel mean by infinite absolute negativity?

I was reading Kierkegaard’s “The Concept of Irony: With Continual Reference to Socrates”
and couldn’t find any sources to unpack the Hegelian definition of irony. Can anyone explain it to me like I’m five?
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Maybe this? "Infinite Absolute Negativity": Irony in Socrates, Kierkegaard and Kafka Author(s): Reed Merrill
Source: Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Sep., 1979), pp. 222-236. : 

“…Infinite absolute negativity fully expresses Kierkegaard's dialectic of opposites, and irony provides the mode of its presentation. To Hegel, infinite absolute negativity is the meeting of opposites - negatives merging with negatives - the result being evolution to new and higher levels of improvement in historical time. The term is meant to
be positive and integrative; it describes the Hegelian moment, according to Emanuel Hirsch, "in the dialectic of the Idea, the Idea which negates itself and through this negation emerges as the true affirmation." For Hegel, irony was only a mechanical device serving positive ends. …”