English Explanatory Dictionary

negation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of negating something.
  2. A denial or contradiction.
  3. 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".)
  4. The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.
  5. 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.

Pronunciation

/nɪˈɡeɪʃn̩/ /nəˈɡeɪʃn̩/ /neˈɡeɪʃn̩/ en-us-negation.ogg

Word forms

negation negations

Etymology

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

Related words

negate negative negativeness negativism negativity

Derived words

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

Translations

Arabic: نَفْي Armenian: ժխտում Armenian: բացասում Bulgarian: отрицание Catalan: negació Chinese Mandarin: 否定 Czech: negace Esperanto: negacio Esperanto: negado Esperanto: neado French: négation German: Negation Greek: άρνηση Hindi: निषेध Hungarian: negáció Icelandic: neitun Japanese: 否定 Norwegian Bokmål: negasjon Polish: negacja Portuguese: negação Russian: отрица́ние Slovak: negácia
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