Dictionary

negation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /nəˈɡeɪʃn̩/
• /neˈɡeɪʃn̩/
• /nɪˈɡeɪʃn̩/
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Etymology

From Middle English negacioun, from Old French negacion, from Latin negātiō (“a denial; negative word”). Morphologically negate + -ion.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The act of negating something.
   • As an isolating language Belter Creole is rich in particles. Particles are used to indicate both negation and interrogation: na is the negative particle and it is placed before the verb 2021 October 5, Gessica Puccini, “Lang Belta: the Belter language from SYFY/Amazon’s The Expanse”, in Lingoblog:
2. (countable) A denial or contradiction.
   • But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue. 1909, Thomas Hardy, The Flirt's Tragedy:
3. (countable) A proposition which is the contradictory of another proposition and which can be obtained from that other proposition by the appropriately placed addition, or insertion, of the word "not". (Or, in symbolic logic, by prepending that proposition with the symbol for the logical operator "not".)
   • You get the negation of a proposition if you insert "not" (or some equivalent expression) into it in such a way as to form a contradictory of it. 2001, Mark Sainsbury, chapter 1, in Logical Forms — An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, 2nd edition, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, §4, page 19:
4. (countable, uncountable) The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.
   • Although some of the logicians working in term logic have very complicated treatments of negation, we can see the origin of the modern conception in the extensional tradition as well. In Boole and most of his followers, the negation of a term is understood as the set theoretic complement of the class represented by that term. For this reason, the negation of classical propositional logic is often called ‘Boolean negation’. 2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Functions”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved 15 Jul 2012:
5. (countable) A negative particle; a word, particularly an adverb, with a negative meaning: for instance, no and not in English, nōn, haud and nē in Latin, οὐ and μή in ancient Greek.

Forms

Deriveds

devil's negation · hyponegation · law of double negation · negationism · negationist · seronegation · overnegation · autonegation · negational · devil negation · misnegation · hypernegation

Hypernyms

logical connective (logical operation) · contradictory (a proposition which negates another one)

Relateds

negative · negativeness · negativity · negate · negativism

Translations (86)

ru отрица́ние (negation in logic) · el άρνηση (negation in logic) · pl negacja (negation in logic) · cs negace (act of negating something) · cs negace (negation in logic) · cmn 否定 (negation in logic) · hi निषेध (act of negating something) · eo negado (negation in logic) · sk negácia (act of negating something) · pl zaprzeczenie (act of negating something) · eo neado (negation in logic) · is neitun (denial or contradiction) · lt neigimas (denial or contradiction) · pt negação (act of negating something) · nrf dêniêthie (act of negating something) · ar نَفْي (act of negating something) · ru опроверже́ние (denial or contradiction) · es negación (act of negating something) · cmn 否認 /否认 (denial or contradiction) · de Verneinung (denial or contradiction) · ar إِنْكَار (denial or contradiction) · ca negació (denial or contradiction) · hu elutasítás (denial or contradiction) · cmn 拒絕 /拒绝 (denial or contradiction) · hy բացասում (act of negating something) · hy ժխտում (negation in logic) · sw ukanushi (act of negating something) · sk popieranie (act of negating something) · cmn 否定 (act of negating something) · fr négation (act of negating something) · pl negacja (act of negating something) · fi kiistäminen (act of negating something) · hu tagadás (act of negating something) · el άρνηση (denial or contradiction) · hu ellentmondás (denial or contradiction) · pl odmowa (denial or contradiction) · be адмаўле́нне (act of negating something) · pt negação (negation in logic) · hi नकार (act of negating something) · fr négation (denial or contradiction) · is neitun (act of negating something) · de Verneinung (act of negating something) · bg отрица́ние (act of negating something) · eo neado (act of negating something) · ru отка́з (denial or contradiction) · ja 否定 (negation in logic) · be адмо́ўе (act of negating something) · nb avvisning (denial or contradiction) · cs popření (denial or contradiction) · nb nektelse (denial or contradiction) · eo negacio (negation in logic) · fi kiistäminen (denial or contradiction) · fi kieltäminen (act of negating something) · el άρνηση (act of negating something) · ro negație (act of negating something) · ko 부정 (act of negating something) · hu tagadás (denial or contradiction) · de Negation (negation in logic) · bg отказ (denial or contradiction) · ru отрица́ние (act of negating something) · ro negare (act of negating something) · hu ellenkezés (denial or contradiction) · ca negació (act of negating something) · nb nektelse (act of negating something) · ar نَفْي (negation in logic) · nb negasjon (negation in logic) · uk запере́чення (act of negating something) · hy ժխտում (act of negating something) · ca negació (negation in logic) · is neitun (negation in logic) · hi निषेध (negation in logic) · sk negovanie (act of negating something) · hu negáció (negation in logic) · fr négation (negation in logic) · cs popření (act of negating something) · fi negaatio (negation in logic) · bg отхвърляне (denial or contradiction) · bg отрицание (negation in logic) · pl zaprzeczanie (act of negating something) · de Negierung (act of negating something) · ja 否決 (denial or contradiction) · hy բացասում (negation in logic) · pl negowanie (act of negating something) · ja 否認 (denial or contradiction) · ja 否定 (act of negating something) · sk negácia (negation in logic)