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