'Denial' definitions:
Definition of 'denial'
From: WordNet
noun
The act of refusing to comply (as with a request); "it resulted in a complete denial of his privileges"
noun
The act of asserting that something alleged is not true [syn: denial, disaffirmation]
noun
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts
noun
Renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others [syn: abnegation, self-abnegation, denial, self-denial, self-renunciation]
noun
A defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him; "he gave evidence for the defense" [syn: defense, defence, denial, demurrer] [ant: criminal prosecution, prosecution]
Definition of 'Denial'
From: GCIDE
- Denial \De*ni"al\, n. [See Deny.]
- 1. The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. [1913 Webster]
- You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. --Bp. Stillingfleet. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A refusal to grant; rejection of a request. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Denial of one's self, a declining of some gratification; restraint of one's appetites or propensities; self-denial. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'denial'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- no-no,
- nonacceptance,
- nonapproval,
- nonbelief,
- noncompliance,
- nonconsent,
- nonconsideration,
- 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