'Negation' definitions:
Definition of 'negation'
(from WordNet)
noun
A negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement
noun
The speech act of negating
noun
(logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false
Definition of 'Negation'
From: GCIDE
- Negation \Ne*ga"tion\, n. [L. negatio, fr. negare to say no, to deny; ne not + the root of aio I say; cf. Gr. ?, Skr. ah to say; cf. F. n['e]gation. See No, adv., and cf. Adage, Deny, Renegade.]
- 1. The act of denying; assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything; declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be; denial; -- the opposite of affirmation. [1913 Webster]
- Our assertions and negations should be yea and nay. --Rogers. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Logic) Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'negation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnegation,
- abolishment,
- abolition,
- absence,
- annihilation,
- annulment,
- antagonism,
- argumentation,
- bucking,
- challenge,
- choking,
- choking off,
- clashing,
- conflict,
- contention,
- contradiction,
- contraposition,
- contravention,
- contraversion,
- controversy,
- counteraction,
- counterworking,
- crosscurrent,
- crossing,
- declension,
- declination,
- declinature,
- declining,
- denial,
- deprivation,
- deracination,
- difference,
- disaccord,
- disaccordance,
- disagreement,
- disallowance,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- disconfirmation,
- discord,
- discordance,
- discordancy,
- discrepancy,
- disharmony,
- disobedience,
- disparity,
- disproof,
- disproval,
- disproving,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissidence,
- dissonance,
- disunion,
- disunity,
- divergence,
- diversity,
- elimination,
- emptiness,
- eradication,
- explosion,
- expose,
- exposure,
- extermination,
- extinction,
- extinguishment,
- extirpation,
- faction,
- gainsaying,
- head wind,
- holding back,
- impugnation,
- impugnment,
- inaccordance,
- inequality,
- invalidation,
- jarring,
- liquidation,
- nay,
- negative,
- negative answer,
- negativeness,
- negativity,
- nihility,
- nix,
- no,
- nonacceptance,
- nonbeing,
- noncompliance,
- nonconsent,
- nonentity,
- nonexistence,
- nonobservance,
- nonoccurrence,
- nonreality,
- nonsubsistence,
- not-being,
- nothingness,
- nullification,
- nullity,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- opposure,
- oppugnancy,
- oppugnation,
- purge,
- rebutment,
- rebuttal,
- recantation,
- redargution,
- reductio ad absurdum,
- refusal,
- rejection,
- repudiation,
- repugnance,
- resistance,
- retention,
- rooting out,
- silencing,
- snuffing out,
- standing against,
- stifling,
- strangulation,
- suffocation,
- suppression,
- thumbs-down,
- traversal,
- turndown,
- unactuality,
- undercurrent,
- unharmoniousness,
- unreality,
- unwillingness,
- uprooting,
- vacancy,
- vacuity,
- vacuum,
- variance,
- void,
- voiding,
- withholding
Words containing 'Negation'
- Negative,
- Negatively,
- Negativeness,
- Negativity,
- negate,
- Negative crystal,
- Negative demonstration,
- Negative electricity,
- Negative eyepiece,
- Negative pregnant,
- Negative quantity,
- Negative rotation,
- Negative sign,
- Negative theorem,
- Negatively charged,
- Negatively electrified,
- Qualified negative,
- Reversed negative,
- double negative,
- negative charge,
- negative chemotaxis,
- negative correlation,
- negative feedback,
- negative hydrotropism,
- negative identification,
- negative lead,
- negative muon,
- negative phototaxis,
- negative phototropism,
- negative pole,
- negative reinforcer,
- negative stimulation,
- negative stimulus,
- negative thigmotaxis,
- negatively pressurized,
- rh negative,
- Electro-negative,
- gram-negative,
- negative feedback circuit,
- negative magnetic pole,
- negative reinforcing stimulus,
- rh-negative,
- rh-negative blood,
- rh-negative blood type