Negation - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|nɪˈɡeɪʃn|
Brit.
|nɪˈɡeɪʃ(ə)n|
noun
- a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement
- the speech act of negating
- (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false
- the speech act of negating
- (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false
Extra examples
...issued specific negations of all of the charges against her...
...a ruling by the Supreme Court that many regarded as a negation of the basic right of privacy...
Death is nothing more than the negation of life.
Much of what passes for Christianity is a negation of Christ's teachings.
He shook his head in silent negation.
More credit were to be given to her bare negation than to their affirmation.
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