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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun negation has 3 senses
- negation(n = noun.communication) - a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement; is a kind of statement
- negation(n = noun.communication) - the speech act of negating; is a kind of denial, disaffirmation
- negation(n = noun.communication) - (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false; is a kind of proposition
Derived form verb negate2
has particulars: contradiction, cancellation
Derived form verb negate2
Derived form verb negate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
negation, n. [L. negatio, fr. negare to say no, to deny; ne not + the root of aio I say; cf. Gr. , Skr. ah to say; cf. F. négation. See No, adv. , and cf. Adage, Deny, Renegade.].
- The act of denying; assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything; declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be; denial; -- the opposite of
affirmation . [1913 Webster]"Our assertions and negations should be yea and nay." [1913 Webster] - Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
negation, n.
1 the absence or opposite of something actual or positive.
2 a the act of denying. b an instance of this.
3 (usu. foll. by of) a refusal, contradiction, or denial.
4 a negative statement or doctrine.
5 a negative or unreal thing; a nonentity.
6 Logic the assertion that a certain proposition is false.
1 the absence or opposite of something actual or positive.
2 a the act of denying. b an instance of this.
3 (usu. foll. by of) a refusal, contradiction, or denial.
4 a negative statement or doctrine.
5 a negative or unreal thing; a nonentity.
6 Logic the assertion that a certain proposition is false.
Derivative
negatory adj.
Etymology
F negation or L negatio (as NEGATE)
THESAURUS
negation
abnegation, abolishment, abolition, absence, annihilation, annulment, antagonism, argumentation, bucking, challenge, choking, choking off, clashing, conflict, contention, contradiction, contraposition, contravention, contraversion, controversy, counteraction, counterworking, crosscurrent, crossing, declension, declination, declinature, declining, denial, deprivation, deracination, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disallowance, disclaimer, disclamation, disconfirmation, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, disharmony, disobedience, disparity, disproof, disproval, disproving, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissonance, disunion, disunity, divergence, diversity, elimination, emptiness, eradication, explosion, expose, exposure, extermination, extinction, extinguishment, extirpation, faction, gainsaying, head wind, holding back, impugnation, impugnment, inaccordance, inequality, invalidation, jarring, liquidation, nay, negative, negative answer, negativeness, negativity, nihility, nix, no, nonacceptance, nonbeing, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonentity, nonexistence, nonobservance, nonoccurrence, nonreality, nonsubsistence, not-being, nothingness, nullification, nullity, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnancy, oppugnation, purge, rebutment, rebuttal, recantation, redargution, reductio ad absurdum, refusal, rejection, repudiation, repugnance, resistance, retention, rooting out, silencing, snuffing out, standing against, stifling, strangulation, suffocation, suppression, thumbs-down, traversal, turndown, unactuality, undercurrent, unharmoniousness, unreality, unwillingness, uprooting, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, variance, void, voiding, withholdingROGET THESAURUS
negation
Counter Evidence
N counter evidence, evidence on the other side, evidence on the other hand, conflicting evidence, contradictory evidence, opposing evidence, disproof, refutation, negation, plea, vindication, counter protest, 'tu quoque' argument, other side of the shield, other side of the coin, reverse of the shield, countervailing, contradictory, unattested, unauthenticated, unsupported by evidence, supposititious, on the contrary, per contra.Negation
N negation, abnegation, denial, disavowal, disclaimer, abjuration, contradiction, contravention, recusation, protest, recusancy, flat contradiction, emphatic contradiction, emphatic denial, dementi, qualification, repudiation, retraction, confutation, refusal, prohibition, denying, denied, contradictory, negative, negatory, recusant, at issue upon, no, nay, not, nowise, not a bit, not a whit, not a jot, not at all, nohow, not in the least, not so, negative, negatory, no way, no such thing, nothing of the kind, nothing of the sort, quite the contrary, tout au contraire, far from it, tant s'en faut, on no account, in no respect, by no, by no manner of means, negatively, never, never in a million years, at no time, there never was a greater mistake, I know better, non haec in faedera, a thousand times no.
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