DENIAL

Denial

Denial, in ordinary English usage, is asserting that a statement or allegation is not true. The same word, and also abnegation, is used for a psychological defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence.

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denial

Noun

  1. The negation in logic.
  2. A refusal to comply with a request.
  3. An assertion of untruth.
  4. Refusal to believe a problem exists
  5. A defense mechanism involving a refusal to accept the truth of a phenomenon or prospect.


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