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Denial
| Denial Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Denial?
[n] renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others
[n] a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him; "he gave evidence for the defense"
[n] the act of asserting that something alleged is not true
[n] the act of refusing to comply (as with a request); "it resulted in a complete denial of his privileges"
[n] (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts
Synonyms | Synonyms for Denial: abnegation |
defence |
defense |
demurrer |
self-abnegation |
self-denial |
self-renunciation
Related Terms | Find terms related to Denial: abjuration |
abjurement |
abnegation |
abrogation |
absolute contradiction |
abstaining |
agnosticism |
annulment |
answer |
argument |
atheism |
ban |
bereavement |
bucking |
challenge |
chucking |
chucking out |
complete answer |
confounding |
confutation |
constraint |
contempt |
contention |
contraband |
contradiction |
contraposition |
contrary assertion |
contravention |
contraversion |
controversion |
cost |
counteraction |
countering |
counterstatement |
counterworking |
crosscurrent |
crossing |
damage |
dead loss |
debit |
declension |
declination |
declinature |
declining |
defense |
demolition |
demurrer |
denudation |
deprivation |
despisal |
despising |
despoilment |
destruction |
detriment |
disaffirmation |
disagreement |
disallowance |
disapproval |
disavowal |
disbelief |
discard |
disclaimer |
disclamation |
discounting |
discredit |
discrediting |
dismissal |
disobedience |
disowning |
disownment |
dispossession |
disproof |
disregard |
dissent |
divestment |
effective rejoinder |
Eighteenth Amendment |
embargo |
exception |
exclusion |
expatriation |
expense |
forbearance |
forbiddance |
forbidden fruit |
forbidding |
forfeit |
forfeiture |
forswearing |
frugality |
gainsaying |
golden mean |
head wind |
heresy |
holding back |
ignoring |
impugnation |
impugnment |
inability to believe |
incredulity |
index |
index expurgatorius |
index librorum prohibitorum |
infidelity |
inhibition |
injunction |
injury |
interdict |
interdiction |
interdictum |
law |
loser |
losing |
losing streak |
loss |
minimifidianism |
misbelief |
moderateness |
moderation |
nay |
negation |
negative |
negative answer |
nix |
no |
nonacceptance |
nonapproval |
nonbelief |
noncompliance |
nonconsent |
nonconsideration |
no-no |
nonobservance |
nothing in excess |
nullification |
nullifidianism |
objection |
opposing |
opposition |
opposure |
oppugnation |
overthrow |
overthrowal |
palinode |
palinody |
passing by |
perdition |
plea |
pleading |
preclusion |
prevention |
privation |
prohibition |
Prohibition Party |
prohibitory injunction |
proscription |
putting away |
putting out |
rebuff |
rebutment |
rebuttal |
recantation |
refraining |
refusal |
refutal |
refutation |
rejection |
reneging |
renouncement |
renunciation |
reply |
repression |
repudiation |
repulse |
resistance |
response |
restraint |
restrictive covenants |
retention |
retractation |
retraction |
revocation |
revokement |
riposte |
robbery |
ruin |
ruling out |
sacrifice |
scouting |
self |
self-control |
self-denial |
self-discipline |
self-mastery |
self-restraint |
soberness |
sobriety |
sophrosyne |
special demurrer |
special pleading |
spoliation |
spurning |
squelch |
standing against |
statement of defense |
statute |
stripping |
subversion |
sumptuary laws |
suppression |
taboo |
taking away |
temperance |
temperateness |
throwing out |
thumbs-down |
total loss |
traversal |
turndown |
turning out |
unbelief |
unbelievingness |
undercurrent |
undermining |
unsaying |
unwillingness |
upset |
upsetting |
veto |
Volstead Act |
withdrawal |
withholding |
zoning |
zoning laws
See Also | abnegation |
assertion |
asseveration |
averment |
defence |
defence mechanism |
defence reaction |
defense |
defense mechanism |
defense reaction |
disavowal |
due process |
due process of law |
entrapment |
forgoing |
forswearing |
naysaying |
negation |
negative |
refusal |
renunciation |
selflessness |
self-sacrifice |
speech act |
trial
Denial In Webster's Dictionary
\De*ni"al\, n. [See {Deny}.]
1. The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation;
-- the contrary of {affirmation}.
You ought to converse with so much sincerity that
your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient.
--Bp.
Stillingfleet.
2. A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge,
imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing
stated or maintained; a contradiction.
3. A refusal to grant; rejection of a request.
The commissioners, . . . to obtain from the king's
subjects as much as they would willingly give, . . .
had not to complain of many peremptory denials.
--Hallam.
4. A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with;
disavowal; -- the contrary of confession; as, the denial
of a fault charged on one; a denial of God.
{Denial of one's self}, a declining of some gratification;
restraint of one's appetites or propensities; self-denial.
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