denial, n.
1 the act or an instance of denying.
2 a refusal of a request or wish.
3 a statement that a thing is not true; a rejection (denial of the accusation).
4 a disavowal of a person as one's leader etc.
5 = SELF-DENIAL.

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denial

Eighteenth Amendment, Prohibition Party, Volstead Act, abjuration, abjurement, abnegation, abrogation, absolute contradiction, abstaining, agnosticism, annulment, answer, argument, atheism, ban, bereavement, bucking, challenge, chucking, chucking out, complete answer, confounding, confutation, constraint, contempt, contention, contraband, contradiction, contraposition, contrary assertion, contravention, contraversion, controversion, cost, counteraction, countering, counterstatement, counterworking, crosscurrent, crossing, damage, dead loss, debit, declension, declination, declinature, declining, defense, demolition, demurrer, denudation, deprivation, despisal, despising, despoilment, destruction, detriment, disaffirmation, disagreement, disallowance, disapproval, disavowal, disbelief, discard, disclaimer, disclamation, discounting, discredit, discrediting, dismissal, disobedience, disowning, disownment, dispossession, disproof, disregard, dissent, divestment, effective rejoinder, embargo, exception, exclusion, expatriation, expense, forbearance, forbiddance, forbidden fruit, forbidding, forfeit, forfeiture, forswearing, frugality, gainsaying, golden mean, head wind, heresy, holding back, ignoring, impugnation, impugnment, inability to believe, incredulity, index, index expurgatorius, index librorum prohibitorum, infidelity, inhibition, injunction, injury, interdict, interdiction, interdictum, law, loser, losing, losing streak, loss, minimifidianism, misbelief, moderateness, moderation, nay, negation, negative, negative answer, nix, no, no-no, nonacceptance, nonapproval, nonbelief, noncompliance, nonconsent, nonconsideration, nonobservance, nothing in excess, nullification, nullifidianism, objection, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnation, overthrow, overthrowal, palinode, palinody, passing by, perdition, plea, pleading, preclusion, prevention, privation, prohibition, prohibitory injunction, proscription, putting away, putting out, rebuff, rebutment, rebuttal, recantation, refraining, refusal, refutal, refutation, rejection, reneging, renouncement, renunciation, reply, repression, repudiation, repulse, resistance, response, restraint, restrictive covenants, retention, retractation, retraction, revocation, revokement, riposte, robbery, ruin, ruling out, sacrifice, scouting, self, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-mastery, self-restraint, soberness, sobriety, sophrosyne, special demurrer, special pleading, spoliation, spurning, squelch, standing against, statement of defense, statute, stripping, subversion, sumptuary laws, suppression, taboo, taking away, temperance, temperateness, throwing out, thumbs-down, total loss, traversal, turndown, turning out, unbelief, unbelievingness, undercurrent, undermining, unsaying, unwillingness, upset, upsetting, veto, withdrawal, withholding, zoning, zoning laws

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Refusal

N refusal, rejection, noncompliance, incompliance, denial, declining, declension, declinature, peremptory refusal, flat refusal, point blank refusal, repulse, rebuff, discountenance, recusancy, abnegation, protest, disclaimer, dissent, revocation, refusing, restive, restiff, recusant, uncomplying, unconsenting, not willing to hear of, deaf to, refused, ungranted, out of the question, not to be thought of, impossible, no, on no account, not for the world, no thank you, thanks but no thanks, non possumus, your humble servant, bien oblige, not on your life, no way, not even if you beg on your knees.

Negation

N negation, abnegation, denial, disavowal, disclaimer, abjuration, contradiction, contravention, recusation, protest, recusancy, flat contradiction, emphatic contradiction, emphatic denial, dementi, qualification, repudiation, retraction, confutation, refusal, prohibition, denying, denied, contradictory, negative, negatory, recusant, at issue upon, no, nay, not, nowise, not a bit, not a whit, not a jot, not at all, nohow, not in the least, not so, negative, negatory, no way, no such thing, nothing of the kind, nothing of the sort, quite the contrary, tout au contraire, far from it, tant s'en faut, on no account, in no respect, by no, by no manner of means, negatively, never, never in a million years, at no time, there never was a greater mistake, I know better, non haec in faedera, a thousand times no.

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