DENIAL

noun Date: 1528 refusal to satisfy a request or desire, 2. a. refusal to admit the truth or reality (as of a statement or charge), assertion that an allegation is false, refusal to acknowledge a person or a thing ; disavowal, the opposing by the defendant of an allegation of the opposite party in a lawsuit, self-~ , negation in logic, a psychological defense mechanism in which confrontation with a personal problem or with reality is avoided by denying the existence of the problem or reality