DENIAL


Meaning of DENIAL in English

noun

1.

refusal to satisfy a request or desire

denial of his visiting privileges

Synonyms: disallowance, refusal, rejection

Related Word: declination, nonacceptance

Contrasted words: allowing, conceding, grant, letting; leave, permission, sufferance

2.

refusal to admit the truth

his denial that he took the money

Synonyms: contradiction, gainsaying, negation

Related Word: controversion, disproof, rebuttal, refutal, refutation; refusal, rejection, repudiation

Contrasted words: acknowledgment, avowal, confession; affirmation, assertion, confirmation

Antonyms: admission

3.

Synonyms: renunciation , abnegation, renouncement, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation

Related Word: abstaining, refraining

Contrasted words: indulgence, self-indulgence; overdoing, overindulgence

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