negation
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6.2
- noun
- /nɪˈɡeɪʃən/
- The utopian negation of practice eliminates the necessity of individual or political prudence.
- absence or negation
- radical negation
- culture as a negation
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Watch on YouTubeIt's an absolute negation of the child's experience.
- It's an absolute negation of the child's experience.
- However, there also seem to be instances where people are confronted with quite specific negations of their beliefs.
- Eliminate the soft talk, eliminate the negations.
- And because he did that back then, we can do what we're doing today, even if it's something by denial, by negation, you know.
- But like, there's a lot of negation of the negation, right?
- It is the hallmark of any deep truth that it's negation is also a deep truth.
- These relationships are about the slow fading of you, the negation of you.
- I'm picking up the cross is an illusion to all sorts of ways of self negation.
Examples
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The end result was the negation of Palestinian rights for many years to come.
Academic text (1990) -
The apophatic method is the negation of all material concepts from the inner life or essence of God.
Academic text (2015) -
The story defines what a man should be by showing the negation: what a man should not be.
Academic text (1991) -
Her entire life is a negation of Jewish ethics.
Fiction book (1997) -
It's an absolute negation of the child's experience.
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The principle of negation has, of course, traditionally characterized the denial of God.
Academic text (1995) -
Confronting the unconscionable negation of freedom.
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However, there also seem to be instances where people are confronted with quite specific negations of their beliefs.
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Not only is this a negation of democracy and its principles, it constitutes interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states.
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The judge's decision was a clear negation of the charges against the defendant.
Synonyms
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2.5
A word or short statement that says no
182
3.0
Not being accepted by people or a group
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1.4
An act of saying you will not accept or agree to something
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2.8
Refusing a request or saying something is not true
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6.7
A statement that says another person's argument is wrong
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5.1
A reason that disagrees with another reason in a discussion
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4.1
To say that another person's words are wrong
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7.3
A written or spoken reply that opposes another claim
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9.9
Saying that something is not true or refusing a request
A statement saying that something is not true or not valid
Antonyms
How Denying
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word negation comes from the Latin verb negare, meaning 'to say no' or 'deny', and it is the same root as the English word negative and the simple word 'no'. So a negation is the act of denying or refusing an idea.