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Negation

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negatingverbTo deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.

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negatingverbTo deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.
denialnounA refusal or failure to provide or grant something that is requested or desired.
denyingnounThe act of one who denies something; a denial.
denyverb(transitive) To assert that something is not true.
refusalnounThe act of refusing.
disavowalnounA denial of knowledge, relationship, or responsibility towards something or someone.
repudiationnounThe act of refusing to accept; the act of repudiating.
rejectionnounThe act of rejecting.
negativenounNot positive or neutral; bad; undesirable; unfavourable.
violationnounThe act or an instance of violating or the condition of being violated.
antithesisnounA proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.
deprivationnoun(uncountable) The state of being deprived; lack.
oppositenounA person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
abrogationnounA repeal by authority; abolition.
withholdingnounThe deduction of taxes from an employee's salary.
refutationnounAn act of refuting or disproving; the disproving of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory by argument or countervailing proof; evidence of falseness.
contradictionnoun(countable) A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that claims that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms.
nullificationnounThe act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or no legal effect.
annulmentnoun(law) An invalidation of something, especially a legal contract.
vetonounA political right to disapprove of (and thereby stop) the process of a decision, a law etc.

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