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Definition of negation : 1. 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.
2. 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.

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continue, affirm, abrogation, traversal, voidance, avoidance, annihilation, disclaimer, defeasance, disaffirmance

denial (part of speech: noun)

refusal

counter-evidence (part of speech: noun)

parry, disproof, rebuttal, subversion, defense, opposition, counter-evidence, confutation

negation (part of speech: noun)

inversion, counterbalancing, nonacceptance, overturning, renouncement, contradiction

opposite (part of speech: noun)

converse, contrary, negative, diametric, inverse, opposite, antithesis, antonym, reverse

annulment (part of speech: noun)

disavowal, nullification, elimination, abnegation, destruction, extinguishment, cancellation, dissolution, disaffirmation, eradication, refutation, dismissal, repudiation, obliteration, abolition, invalidation, disclamation, neutralization, abolishment, undoing, revocation, rejection, withdrawal, divorce, deletion, annulment, denial, retraction

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