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Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.
Richard Phillips

Meaning of "negation" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NEGATION

negation  [nɪˈɡeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NEGATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Negation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NEGATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Negation

In logic, negation, also called logical complement, is an operation that essentially takes a proposition p to another proposition "not p", written ¬p, which is interpreted intuitively as being true when p is false and false when p is true. Negation is thus a unary logical connective. It may be applied as an operation on propositions, truth values, or semantic values more generally. In classical logic, negation is normally identified with the truth function that takes truth to falsity and vice versa. In intuitionistic logic, according to the Brouwer–Heyting–Kolmogorov interpretation, the negation of a proposition p is the proposition whose proofs are the refutations of p.

Definition of negation in the English dictionary

The first definition of negation in the dictionary is the opposite or absence of something. Other definition of negation is a negative thing or condition. Negation is also the act or an instance of negating.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NEGATION


aggregation
ˌæɡrɪˈɡeɪʃən
allegation
ˌælɪˈɡeɪʃən
centrifugation
ˌsɛntrɪfjʊˈɡeɪʃən
congregation
ˌkɒŋɡrɪˈɡeɪʃən
conjugation
ˌkɒndʒʊˈɡeɪʃən
delegation
ˌdɛlɪˈɡeɪʃən
elongation
ˌiːlɒŋˈɡeɪʃən
homologation
hɒˌmɒləˈɡeɪʃən
interrogation
ɪnˌtɛrəˈɡeɪʃən
investigation
ɪnˌvɛstɪˈɡeɪʃən
irrigation
ˌɪrɪˈɡeɪʃən
ligation
laɪˈɡeɪʃən
litigation
ˌlɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən
mitigation
ˌmɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən
navigation
ˌnævɪˈɡeɪʃən
obligation
ˌɒblɪˈɡeɪʃən
prolongation
ˌprəʊlɒŋˈɡeɪʃən
propagation
ˌprɒpəˈɡeɪʃən
relegation
ˌrɛlɪˈɡeɪʃən
segregation
ˌsɛɡrɪˈɡeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NEGATION

negater
negational
negationist
negative
negative bending moment
negative campaigning
negative cash flow
negative charge
negative equity
negative feedback
negative hallucination
negative income tax
negative number
negative particle
negative polarity
negative pole
negative prescription
negative profit
negative reinforcement
negative resistance

WORDS THAT END LIKE NEGATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of negation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «NEGATION»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «negation» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of negation

Translation of «negation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NEGATION

Find out the translation of negation to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of negation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «negation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

否定
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

negación
570 millions of speakers

English

negation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निषेध
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نفي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

отрицание
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

negação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অস্বীকৃতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

négation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Penafian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Negation
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

否定
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

부정
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Negasi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự phủ nhận
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மறுப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नकार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

olumsuzluk
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

negazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

negacja
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

заперечення
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

negație
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

άρνηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ontkenning
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

negationen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

negasjon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of negation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NEGATION»

The term «negation» is quite widely used and occupies the 47.845 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of negation
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NEGATION» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «negation» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «negation» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about negation

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10 QUOTES WITH «NEGATION»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word negation.
1
Gustave Courbet
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
2
Tyler Cowen
A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.
3
Jose Ortega y Gasset
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
4
Alexander Haig
Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.
5
Knut Hamsun
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.
6
Ivan Illich
Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
7
Lupita Nyong'o
I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.
8
Richard Phillips
Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.
9
Salvatore Quasimodo
An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.
10
Godfrey Reggio
But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NEGATION»

Discover the use of negation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to negation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Expression of Negation
Precisely this is the aim of the present series. The short volumes will bring together what is known about the expression of a particular category in human language.
Laurence R. Horn, 2010
2
What is Negation?
The notion of negation is one of the central logical notions.
Dov M. Gabbay, Heinrich Wansing, 1999
3
On Freud's "Negation"
This volume elucidates these concepts and refines the distinction between Freud's negation and subsequently described mental mechanisms of denial, repudiation, isolation, and undoing.
Salman Akhtar, Mary Kay O'Neil, 2011
4
Music and the Politics of Negation
In Music and the Politics of Negation, James R. Currie sets out to disturb the validity of this now quite orthodox claim.
James R. Currie, 2011
5
Reality and Negation - Kant's Principle of Anticipations of ...
The present work therefore departs from the hypothesis that the essential philosophical importance of the Anticipations of Perception can only be fully measured by exploring its impact in the Post-Kantian debate.
Marco Giovanelli, 2010
6
A Natural History of Negation
This book offers a unique synthesis of past and current work on the structure, meaning, and use of negation and negative expressions, a topic that has engaged thinkers from Aristotle and the Buddha to Freud and Chomsky.
Laurence R. Horn, 1989
7
Negation, Subjectivity, and The History of Rhetoric
Vitanza concludes - rather rebegins in a sophistic-performative excursus - with a prelude to future (anterior) histories of rhetorics. Vitanza asks: "What will have been anti-Oedipalizedized (de-negated) hysteries of rhetorics?
Victor J. Vitanza, 1997
8
Sentential Negation in French
This is the first full-length study of sentential negation phenomena in French.
Paul Rowlett, 1998
9
Negation Patterns in West African Languages and Beyond
This volume deals with issues on negation patterns in languages of West Africa and the adjacent north and east. The first aim is to provide data on various aspects of negation in African languages.
Norbert Cyffer, Erwin Ebermann, Georg Ziegelmeyer, 2009
10
History of German Negation
This book represents the first comprehensive overview over the history of negation in German.
Agnes Jäger, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NEGATION»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term negation is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Jurgen Klinsmann must go.
from Italian disastro 'ill-starred event', from dis- (expressing negation) + astro 'star' (from Latin astrum). "Our approach for putting together the ... «Hudson River Blue, Jul 15»
2
As I See It: Arming all sides for nuclear war
If the P5+1 negotiators had deliberately set out to produce an Orwellian negation of every single thing they purported to be doing, making ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Jul 15»
3
Technology Holds Promise for Students With Poor Vocabulary Skills
As illustrated in the Hart and Risley study, language for many impoverished children is used more often to communicate negation, disapproval, ... «Education Week, Jul 15»
4
Atheism on Trial
Theism is from the Greek for God (or gods), of course; and the 'a-' prefix is the Greek negation of whatever it's prefixing. Thus atheism means simply 'no God'. «Philosophy Now, Jul 15»
5
Tisha B'Av - A Bifurcated Observance for the Rambam
Personal grief is often a state of being which leads to the total negation of life and even the consideration of ending it. It is for this reason that ... «Arutz Sheva, Jul 15»
6
Bukola Saraki, Others Diverted 3 Billion Kwara Bailout Fund …
... was shocked by the diversion, describing Saraki's actions as thoughtless, and a total negation of the reasons behind the release of the funds. «NAIJ.COM, Jul 15»
7
Thinking from outside
The Left, in short, must commit an act of self-negation of a sort it does not normally do: it has to take the initiative for getting for itself an agenda ... «Calcutta Telegraph, Jul 15»
8
'Julian Draxler has not agreed Juventus deal'
According to many Germany and Italy media Schalke 04 has given green light to Juventus for negation with player about possible transfer. «Celebrity Cafe - Entertainment News, Jul 15»
9
They want me dead: Minister
Factionalism is counter revolutionary and a negation of the principles of progress and good leadership. “I am an ardent, disciplined and devout ... «Nehanda Radio, Jul 15»
10
What ails the polity?
The concentration of state power in an individual, howsoever charismatic and sagacious he may be or a chosen tribe is a negation of ... «Business Recorder, Jul 15»

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