DENIAL meaning: Refusal to accept reality, truth

We found 45 dictionaries that define the word denial:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

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denial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
denial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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Denial, denial: Wordnik
denial: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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denial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
denial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
denial: Infoplease Dictionary
denial: Dictionary.com
denial: Online Etymology Dictionary
denial: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Denial (Freud), Denial (Sevendust song), Denial (Sugababes song), Denial (disambiguation), Denial (poem), Denial, The Denial: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Denial: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
denial: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
denial: Rhymezone
denial: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
denial: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
denial: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
denial: Free Dictionary
denial: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Business (6 matching dictionaries)

denial: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
denial: Law.com Dictionary
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Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
Denial (psychology), denial: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Denial (psychology), denial: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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Denial: Merck Manuals
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Denial: Glossary of Lymphoma Terms
denial: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
Denial (psychology), denial: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)

Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
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Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  An assertion of untruth.
▸ noun:  (logic) The negation in logic.
▸ noun:  A refusal or failure to provide or grant something that is requested or desired.
▸ noun:  Refusal to believe that a problem exists.
▸ noun:  Refusal to admit responsibility for wrongdoing.
▸ noun:  Negationism, denialism of historical facts or accepted interpretation.
▸ noun:  (psychology) A defense mechanism involving a refusal to accept the truth of a phenomenon or prospect.
▸ noun:  A disownment or disavowal

Opposite:

acceptance, acknowledgment, admission, affirmation, confirmation

Types:

cognitive, behavioral, selective, dissociative, psychological, more...

Phrases:

in denial, Holocaust denial, general denial, self denial, denial of service attack, more...

Adjectives:

self, such, general, complete, flat, total, absolute, simple, direct, emphatic, explicit

Colors:

gray, black, white, blue, dark blue, more...

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