Denial (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. an assertion that something said, believed, alleged, etc., is false: Despite his denials, we knew he had taken the purse. The politician issued a denial of his opponent's charges.
  2. refusal to believe a doctrine, theory, or the like.
  3. disbelief in the existence or reality of a thing.
  4. the refusal to satisfy a claim, request, desire, etc., or the refusal of a person making it.
  5. refusal to recognize or acknowledge; a disowning or disavowal: the traitor's denial of his country; Peter's denial of Christ.
  6. refusal to acknowledge the validity of a claim, suit, or the like; a plea that denies allegations of fact in an adversary's plea: Although she sued for libel, he entered a general denial.
  7. sacrifice of one's own wants or needs; self-denial.
  8. an unconscious defense mechanism used to reduce anxiety by denying thoughts, feelings, or facts that are consciously intolerable.
noun
  1. a refusal to agree or comply with a statement; contradiction
  2. the rejection of the truth of a proposition, doctrine, etc
  3. a negative reply; rejection of a request
  4. a refusal to acknowledge; renunciation; disavowal
  5. a psychological process by which painful truths are not admitted into an individual's consciousness
  6. abstinence; self-denial
Denial (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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