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negation

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ne=ga=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

negationn. [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.

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, withholding

ROGET 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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