negation

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Singular
negation

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural negations

negation (countable and uncountable; plural negations)

  1. (uncountable) The act of negating something.
  2. (countable) A denial or contradiction.
  3. (logic, countable) A proposition that is true if and only if another one is false; a proposition resulting from the application to another proposition of the logical operation "not".

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act of negating something
denial or contradiction
negation in logic
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