Etymology

From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#NEGATIONCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#NEGATION negacioun, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#NEGATION negacion, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#NEGATION negātiō (“a denial; negative word”). Morphologically negate +‎ -ionCategory:English terms suffixed with -ion#NEGATION.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɪˈɡeɪʃn̩/, /nəˈɡeɪʃn̩/, /neˈɡeɪʃn̩/Category:English 3-syllable words#NEGATIONCategory:English 3-syllable words#NEGATIONCategory:English 3-syllable words#NEGATIONCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#NEGATION

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃənCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪʃən#NEGATIONCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪʃən/3 syllables#NEGATION

Noun

negation (countable and uncountable, plural negations)Category:English lemmas#NEGATIONCategory:English nouns#NEGATIONCategory:English uncountable nouns#NEGATIONCategory:English countable nouns#NEGATIONCategory:English countable nouns#NEGATIONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NEGATIONCategory:Pages with entries#NEGATIONCategory:Pages with 1 entry#NEGATION

1. (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#NEGATION) The act of negating something.
   • 2021 October 5, Gessica Puccini, “Lang Belta: the Belter language from SYFY/Amazon’s The Expanse”, in Lingoblog‎:

     As an isolating language Belter Creole is rich in particles. Particles are used to indicate both negation and interrogation: na is the negative particle and it is placed before the verb

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2. (countableCategory:English countable nouns#NEGATION) A denial or contradiction.
   • 1909, Thomas Hardy, The Flirt's Tragedy:

     But it pleased her to play on my passion / And whet me to pleadings / That won from her mirthful negations / And scornings undue.

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3. (logicCategory:en:Logic#NEGATION, linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#NEGATION, countableCategory:English countable nouns#NEGATION) A proposition which is the contradictory of another proposition and which can be obtained from that other proposition by the appropriately placed addition, or insertion, of the word "not". (Or, in symbolic logic, by prepending that proposition with the symbol for the logical operator "not".)
   • 2001, Mark Sainsbury, chapter 1, in Logical Forms — An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, 2nd edition, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, §4, page 19:

     You get the negation of a proposition if you insert "not" (or some equivalent expression) into it in such a way as to form a contradictory of it.

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4. (logicCategory:en:Logic#NEGATION) The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.
   • 2011 July 20, Edwin Mares, “Propositional Functions”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy‎, retrieved 15 July 2012:

     Although some of the logicians working in term logic have very complicated treatments of negation, we can see the origin of the modern conception in the extensional tradition as well. In Boole and most of his followers, the negation of a term is understood as the set theoretic complement of the class represented by that term. For this reason, the negation of classical propositional logic is often called ‘Boolean negation’.

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5. (linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#NEGATION, countableCategory:English countable nouns#NEGATION) A negative particle; a word, particularly an adverb, with a negative meaning: for instance, no and not in English, nōn, haud and nē in Latin, οὐ and μή in ancient Greek.

Anagrams

• Antigone