a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement

( logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false

the speech act of negating

Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has.

The act of denying; assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything; declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be; denial; - the opposite of affirmation.

Denial: opposite to affirmation; absence of positive qualities.

Act of saying no: denial: ( logic) the absence of certain qualities in anything.

Negative statement; denial.

Denial; declaration that something is not.

Denial, as opposed to affirmation; a declaration that a certain thing is not, or has not been; argument drawn from denial.

The doctrine is a negation of doctrine, the idle dream of idle men; even Pyrrho once, when surprised in some sudden access of fear, confessed that it was hard for him 'to get rid of the man in himself. – A Short History of Greek Philosophy by John Marshall

Trabue shook his head in a decisive negation. – The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford

The point is that the name of Jesus, which stands for a moral ideal which is the very negation of materialism, commands a reverence, and indeed a worship, the like of which no other has ever received in the history of mankind. – The New Theology by R. J. Campbell

The profoundest themes which can occupy the mind of man were handled with marvellous lightness of touch and clothed with prismatic brilliancy of speech; but all was negation. – A Short History of France by Mary Platt Parmele

The close- cropped, bullet- shaped, British head was agitated in vigorous negation, and " Card for Mister Kirkwood!" – The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance

An extraordinary smile passed across the face of Feriz, he waved aside the idea with his hand and bent his head forwards, which is a way the Turks have of expressing decided negation. – The Slaves of the Padishah by Mór Jókai

No negation: not the absence of war. – Non-combatants and Others by Rose Macaulay

The principle of negation is the very life of thought, and it is the life of thought, rather than the outcome of thought, which is reality. – The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry

In the former case the negation is distributed by the neque . – Selections from Viri Romae by Charles François L'Homond

Is it true that there is no judgment, even affirmative in form, which is not mixed with negation? – Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

For they are clearly not in greater darkness or negation than not- being, or more full of light and existence than being. – Plato's Republic by Plato

This is the same as saying that the negation of liberty is unthinkable. – The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile

What was intended for the spread of true knowledge and faith became in the end the source of spiritual pride, the natural fosterer of doubt and negation. – Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Aug. J. Thebaud

He had made a huge fire, and had heaped up beside it great store of fuel, but, though his body was warm and likely to be warm, his soul inside it felt the ravaging cold outside- remorseless, and full of mock, the ghastly power of negation and unmaking. – Warlock o' Glenwarlock by George MacDonald

Bob and Jack both shook their heads in negation. – The Radio Boys with the Revenue Guards by Gerald Breckenridge

Still, to study a man by a process of negation is tedious, and though I knew that he was not a Nihilist, or a free- lover, or an atheist, or an unprincipled fellow with a dangerous temper, yet I was curious to see him as he really was. – The Autobiography of a Slander by Edna Lyall

But it follows at once from this that negation is not the work of pure mind, I should say of a mind placed before objects and concerned with them alone. – Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson

Crevel shook his head in negation. – Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac

Politics were for him the art of the possible enlarged by the negation of the ethical. – England and Germany by Emile Joseph Dillon

You do condemn me, I am certain of it, she insisted, seeing my gesture of negation. – The Passenger from Calais by Arthur Griffiths