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overnegation en · NOUN

Etymology

From over- + negation.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Excessive negation.
    • Firmly based in meditative practice and reacting to a perceived overnegation tending toward the nihilistic in Madhyamaka teachings, Yōgacāra doctrines are concerned with the non duality ^([sic]) of subject and object, which for them are impositions upon the non-dual flow of perceptions, sometimes termed Mind. 1998, Gay Watson, The Resonance of Emptiness, page 80: