n. Function: noun
1 refusal to satisfy a request or desire FF1C; denial of his visiting privileges FF1E;
Synonyms: disallowance, refusal, rejection
Related Words: declination, nonacceptance
Contrasted Words: allowing, conceding, grant, letting; leave, permission, sufferance
2 refusal to admit the truth FF1C; his denial that he took the money FF1E;
Synonyms: contradiction, gainsaying, negation
Related Words: controversion, disproof, rebuttal, refutal, refutation; refusal, rejection, repudiation
Contrasted Words: acknowledgment, avowal, confession; affirmation, assertion, confirmation
Antonyms: admission
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Synonyms: RENUNCIATION , abnegation, renouncement, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-renunciation
Related Words: abstaining, refraining
Contrasted Words: indulgence, self-indulgence; overdoing, overindulgence