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Another word for denial

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Noun

  1. A turning down of a request

    See also:

    accept

  2. A refusal to grant the truth of a statement or charge

    See also:

    affirm

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Another word for denial

Noun

  1. Refusal to recognize a situation

    Antonyms:

  2. Refusal to give consent

    See also:

    refusal

    opposition

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Sentence Examples

  • Any denial would be immediately detected as a lie, anyway.

  • We're still working with Hannah.  She's in denial about everything.  I almost pity the girl.

  • Determinism had other forms besides that of a crude materialism, and the direction that Malebranche succeeded in giving to speculation led only to the more complete denial of freedom and individuality in the all-devouring pantheism of Spinoza.

  • You're in denial about Wynn.

  • Here again the Categories forms a kind of transition from Platonism to the Metaphysics which is the reverse: to call universals secondary substances " is half way between Plato's calling them the only substances and Aristotle's denial in the Metaphysics that they are substances at all.

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