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Another word for denial

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denial

n.

Refusal to recognize a situation
disavowal, forswearing, repudiation, contradiction, disclaiming, disclaimer, abnegation, rejection, refutation, negation, retraction, recantation, dismissal, renunciation, dismissing, disowning, disaffirmation, refusal to recognize, refusal to acknowledge, disbelief.
Antonyms acknowledgment*, avowal, confession.
Refusal to give consent
rejection, veto, dissent, disapproval; see opposition 2, refusal.

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Another word for denial

noun

A turning down of a request:
disallowance, refusal, rejection, turndown. See accept
A refusal to grant the truth of a statement or charge:
contradiction, disaffirmance, disaffirmation, disclaimer, negation, rejection. (Law) traversal. See affirm

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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.
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.
You're in denial about Wynn.

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