Antonym: Confirmation, acknowledgment, affirmation, concession. Similar words: colonial, residential, presidential, Palestinian, senior, even if, lenient, opening. Meaning: [dɪ'naɪəl] 
n. 1. the act of refusing to comply (as with a request) 2. the act of asserting that something alleged is not true 3. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts 4. renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others 5. a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him.
n. 1. the act of refusing to comply (as with a request) 2. the act of asserting that something alleged is not true 3. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts 4. renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others 5. a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him. 
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61. Yet even now there is a sense of denial that could prove costly.
62. A third response to the problem of induction involves the denial that science is based on induction.
63. Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, leader of Inkatha, on June 9 issued a denial of the allegations.
64. It is a denial of democracy to keep smears secret.
65. To undertake a critical reading which is unconcerned with how it is intervening in the present is a denial of intellectual responsibility.
66. About their own camps, by contrast, the Soviet Union was able to exercise a sustained Orwellian denial.
67. In either case a denial is accepted and not moved against unless there is a good reason.
68. It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. Bill Watterson 
69. His reply was inpart denial of the criticisms[Sentencedict.com], and inpart an attempt to change the issue or confuse the matter.
70. Labour's stunning victory in 1997 left the Tory party in denial about the seriousness of its situation.
71. Denial is a safe place to rest while waiting for grace.
72. In any case, self denial was a habit with them.
73. His silence about the authorship of the more famous epigram thus amounts almost to a denial that Simonides wrote it.
74. They are caught in this place of denial and unrealized emotion and desire.
75. Joanna's denial rang true.
76. Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes. Criss Jami
77. For that very denial had, in fact, given me far more.
78. The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial. Oscar Wilde
79. For at the heart of that dominant form, the quest-story, there lies very often a denial of fulfilment.
80. The denial of tenderness cuts them off from communication with wives and children.
81. All is euphemistic denial of the one fact of both.
82. He tried to slow her down with gestures which she interpreted as signs of denial, and so she poured it on.
83. My rejection of death was less a denial than a postponement of the recognition of its ultimate reality.
84. At the medical products firm we mentioned earlier, symptoms of denial were rife.
85. That is not to say, however, that we should collude in a denial of the phenomenon.
86. Major stumbling blocks on the path to self-knowledge are denial and blame.
87. If this is the post-Clinton era, then the media, at least, are in deep-throated denial.
88. If the War Crimes Act, denial law and Holocaust day were unarguably just, calculations about malign side-effects would be irrelevant.
89. I would very much like to know if you are contemplating marrying Giles, in spite of your apparent denial.
90. Denial, too, seemed to be an effort to cling to hope.
More similar words: colonial, residential, presidential, Palestinian, senior, even if, lenient, opening, screening, convenience, deny, dense, wooden, sudden, trial, incident, density, student, evident, social, racial, identify, tendency, identity, evidence, resident, partial, socially, crucial, initial.