
1) Abnegation 2) Allegation reply 3) Am not 4) American crime novel 5) Assertion of falsehood 6) Common defense mechanism 7) Contradiction 8) Defence mechanism 9) Defense mechanism 10) Disavowal 11) Disclaimer 12) First stage of grief 13) Greek poem 14) Headshake 15) Negation 16) Negative state 17) Negative thing to be in
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1) Abnegation 2) Contradiction 3) Defense mechanism 4) Denegation 5) Disagreement 6) Disavowal 7) Disclaimer 8) Entrapment 9) Lack 10) Nay 11) Naysaying 12) Negation 13) Negative 14) No 15) Not 16) Rebuttal 17) Refusal 18) Refutation 19) Rejection 20) Renunciation 21) Veto
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- the act of refusing a request
- an assertion that something alleged is not true
- (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts
- renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others
- a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him
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Denial, in ordinary English usage, is asserting that a statement or allegation is not true. The same word, and also abnegation, is used for a psychological defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may ...
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[Young Justice] `Denial` is the seventh episode of Young Justice, which aired on February 18, 2011. ...
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[poem] Denial (Greek: Άρνηση) is a poem by Giorgos Seferis (1900–1971) published in his collection Turning Point (`Strophe`) in 1931. After the coup that overthrew the Greek government in 1967, Seferis went into voluntary seclusion and many of his poems were banned, including the musical versions which Mikis Theodorakis had written ...
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• (n.) The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation. • (n.) A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge, imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or maintained; a contradiction. • (n.) A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with; disavowal; -- the cont...
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(from the article `defense mechanism`) 6. Denial is the conscious refusal to perceive that painful facts exist. In denying latent feelings of homosexuality or hostility, or mental defects ...
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In psychiatry, a state in which a person is unable or unwilling to see the truth or reality about an issue or situation.
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<psychology> Refusal to admit the truth or reality of a situation or experience. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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(dә-ni´әl) in psychiatry, a defense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant internal or external realities is denied and kept out of consciousness in an effort to keep them from causing anxiety.
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n. Defendant's statement in a lawsuit that a particular allegation is not factual. General denials occur when all allegations are denied. The defendant's statement is limited to admitting, denying, or denying on the basis that they cannot affirm or deny.
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Don't Even Notice I Am Lying
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defense mechanism in which the subject acts as if consciously unaware of a wish or reality.
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De·ni'al noun [ See Deny .] 1. The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation . « You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient.» Bp. Stillingfleet. 2.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: dĕ-nī′ăl Definitions: 1. An unconscious defense mechanism used to allay anxiety by denying the existence of important conflicts, troublesome impulses, events, actions, or illness. Synonyms: negation
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A statement by a defendant that an allegation (claim of fact) is not true. When a defendant in a civil lawsuit files an answer to a plaintiff's complaint, the defendant is limited to three choices: admitting, denying, or denying the allegations on the basis that he or she has no information to affirm or deny them. If a defendant denies all of the a...
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[
n] - (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts 2. [n] - the act of refusing to comply (as with a request) 3. [n] - the act of asserting that something alleged is not true
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Refusing to acknowledge an alcohol problem. Example: Overcoming denial to accept treatment needs.
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Someone is said to be in denial when they cannot accept or believe what has happened to them.
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noun the act of asserting that something alleged is not true
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noun the act of refusing to comply (as with a request); `it resulted in a complete denial of his privileges`
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refusal to authorize payment for a prescription.
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an assertion that something said, believed, alleged, etc., is false: Despite his denials, we knew he had taken the purse. The politician issued a denial of his opponent's charges. · refusal to believe a doctrine, theory, or the like. · disbelief in the existence or reality of a thing. · the refusal to satisfy a claim, request,...
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A defense mechanism that involves refusing to acknowledge something that is obvious to others.
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