negation

Meanings

Plural: negations

Noun

• a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement
• the speech act of negating
• (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false
• The act of negating something.
• A denial or contradiction.
• A proposition which is the contradictory of another proposition and which can be obtained from that other proposition by the appropriately placed addition/insertion of the word "not". (Or, in symbolic logic, by prepending that proposition with the symbol for the logical operator "not".)
• The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.

Related Words

negate, negative, negativeness, negativism, negativity