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Negation
01
the act of expressing disagreement or contradiction through speech
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Compound
Countable
Plural form
negations
Examples
The witness 's testimony provided a strong negation of the defendant's alibi.
02
a statement that contradicts or denies another statement
Examples
The scientific report included findings that represented a negation of previous conclusions reached in earlier studies.
03
(logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false
Lexical Tree
negation
negate
