Word Finder - denial

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The negation in logic.

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The denial of "There might be X" is the null, "False, there is no X."

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A refusal to comply with a request.

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Every time we asked for an interview we got a denial.

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An assertion of untruth.

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The singer has issued a sweeping denial of all the rumors.

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Refusal to believe a problem exists

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We couldn't break through his denial about being alcoholic.

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A defense mechanism involving a refusal to accept the truth of a phenomenon or prospect.

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He is in denial that he has a drinking problem.

Any denial would be immediately detected as a lie, anyway.

We're still working with Hannah.  She's in denial about everything.  I almost pity the girl.

You're in denial about dying.

Determinism had other forms besides that of a crude materialism, and the direction that Malebranche succeeded in giving to speculation led only to the more complete denial of freedom and individuality in the all-devouring pantheism of Spinoza.

So many of them are in denial or have come to think that there is no solution.

Just as in logic the inevitable result was the purest nominalism, so in ethics he was driven to individualism, to the denial of social and national relations, to the exclusion of scientific study and of almost all that the Greeks understood by education.

You're in denial about Wynn.

But Dean's denial of Cynthia's implication appeared well founded given her reaction to the discovery of the body in Norfolk.

The approval or denial of the application may take anywhere from ten to sixty business days.

A distributed denial of service attack on the NHL Web site took it off the air for several days, 21 through 25 May.

The claim to universality and the isolated abstract individual presupposed by such economics constitutes a denial of interdependence and impermanence.

Initial versions of Code Red, released in July 2001 attempted to launch a denial of service attack on the whitehouse.gov Website.

This is an outright denial of the teaching of Christ, the teaching of the apostles.

Now go away. The Palace quickly issued a strenuous denial.

The denial that the Son came from any other hypostasis or ousia is ambiguous and potentially confusing.

But he is is deep denial and cannot face the ignominy of being sacked.

It poses a particular dilemma for a species already predisposed to enter a state of denial about personal mortality.

In Newman's time, the seeds were being sown of the denial of supernatural revelation.

Later, accessing his case notes, this ' diagnosed schizophrenic ' discovered that his honest denial had simply been disregarded.

There seems to be a culture present in today's society within which the natural world around us is held in denial.

Denial of nature goes hand-in-hand with terms like " freak storm " .

Simple denial would have seemed unreasonable, making liars of everyone ariving from the east.

The denial of low-educated married women to add to non-hispanic whites are.

It is quite true that Paul does not directly attack the speculative position, but rather indicates the practical dangers inherent therein (the denial of the supremacy of Christ and of full salvation through Him); he does not say that the errorists hold Christ to be a mere angel or an aeon, or that words like pleroma (borrowed perhaps from their own vocabulary) involve a rigorous dualism.

He claims originality for his theory that the moral evil is the practical denial of a true proposition and moral good the affirmation of it (see Ethics).

The attitude of a man who denies the doctrine of immortality and rejoices in the denial is not strictly pessimistic. A Christian again may be pessimistic about the present; he must logically be optimistic about the future - a teleological view of the universe implies optimism on the whole; the agnostic may be indifferent to, or pessimistic, regarding the future, while exceedingly satisfied with life as he finds it.

The persistent attempt of the South African Republic to assert its full independence, culminating in a formal denial of British suzerainty, made it additionally incumbent on Great Britain to carry its point as to the Uitlander grievances, while, from Mr Kruger's point of view, the admission of the Uitlanders to real political rights meant the doom of his oligarchical regime, and appeared in the light of a direct menace to Boer supremacy.

But his arguments against the first are really only valid against the limited and unworthy conceptions of divine agency involved in the ancient religions; his denial of the second is prompted by his vital realization of all that is meant by the arbitrary infliction of eternal torment after death.

But in his very denial of a cruel, limited and capricious agency of the gods, and in his imaginative recognition of an orderly, all-pervading, all-regulating power, we find at least a nearer approach to the higher conceptions of modern theism than in any of the other imaginative conceptions of ancient poetry and art.

He thinks with Berkeley that objects of sight are quite distinct from those of touch, and that the one therefore cannot give any assurance of the other; and he asks the Cartesians to consider how far God's truth and goodness are called in question by their denial of the externality of the secondary qualities.

The dissidence of dissent, however, filled him with uneasiness, and he abhorred Luther's denial of free will and his exaggerated notion of man's utter depravity; in short, he did nothing whatever to promote the Protestant revolt, except so far as his frank denunciation and his witty arraignment of clerical and monastic weaknesses and soulless ceremonial, especially in his Praise of Folly and Colloquies, contributed to bring the faults of the Church into strong relief, and in so far as his edition of the New Testament furnished a simple escape from innumerable theological complications.

His condemnation of Jansenism (1653) was met with the denial of papal infallibility in matters of fact, and the controversy entered upon a new phase (see Jansenism).

In Newman 's time, the seeds were being sown of the denial of supernatural revelation.

There seems to be a culture present in today 's society within which the natural world around us is held in denial.

Denial of nature goes hand-in-hand with terms like " freak storm ".

Second, having a short timeout period reduces the potential for denial of service attacks.

Whatever the reason for this vehement denial of any search or signal, there is no doubt that no message has been received.

Not supplying this information in full, or supplying an incorrect number, results in an automatic application denial.

In some cases, you may receive instant notification of approval or denial.

A lot of people are in deep denial about this.

It's perfectly natural to go through the stages of grief (shock, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance) when you lose a job.

Denial and anger are fast responses because most people need their jobs, they need to know that paycheck is coming.

Many people who have debt will live in denial of it.

You may even want to go back into denial because you figure there's nothing to be done about it.

Programs such as those using a 12-step model can encourage meth addicts to discuss the problem and acknowledge any denial about the addiction.

The goal is to break through the denial and get the addict started on recovery.

Denial is a typical reaction of an alcoholic to his problem.

Just keep in mind that if you confront him, you will encounter hostility and denial.

An intervention is one way to address the issues and get past the denial to a place where things can change.

Being completely honest with a person who might be in denial that there is a problem or who doesn't want to change is a difficult situation, which is why interventions should be done in a specific time and place.