опроверже́ние — meaning in English
oproverzheniye
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English meaning
- denial noun A refusal to admit that something is true.
- negation noun The act of negating something.
- rebuttal noun An argument or evidence offered to counter someone else's claim.
- refutation noun An act of refuting or disproving; the disproving of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory by argument or countervailing proof; evidence of falseness.
Senses
опроверже́ние is used for these senses in English:
- denial An assertion of untruth.
- negation (countable) A denial or contradiction.
- rebuttal The act of contradicting something by making a contrary argument, or presenting contrary evidence.
- refutation An act of refuting or disproving; the disproving of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory by argument or countervailing proof; evidence of falseness.
denial — full definition
- noun A refusal to admit that something is true.
- noun A refusal to accept an unpleasant truth or reality, often as a psychological coping mechanism.
- noun A refusal to grant or provide something requested.
negation — full definition
- noun The act of negating something.
- noun A denial or contradiction.
- 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".)
- noun The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.