négation — meaning in English

English meaning

• denial noun A refusal to admit that something is true.
• negation noun The act of negating something.

Senses

négation is used for these senses in English:

• denial An assertion of untruth.
• denial (logic) The negation in logic.

denial — full definition

1. noun A refusal to admit that something is true.
2. noun A refusal to accept an unpleasant truth or reality, often as a psychological coping mechanism.
3. noun A refusal to grant or provide something requested.

negation — full definition

1. noun The act of negating something.
2. noun A denial or contradiction.
3. noun A proposition which is the contradictory of another proposition and which can be obtained from that other proposition by the appropriately placed addition, or insertion, of the word "not". (Or, in symbolic logic, by prepending that proposition with the symbol for the logical operator "not".)
4. noun The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.

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