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disaffirmation

noun
/dɪsˌæfɜːˈmeɪʃən/UK

Etymology

From disaffirm + -ation or dis- + affirmation.

  1. derived from affirmare
  2. derived from afermer
  3. inherited from affermen
  4. prefixed as disaffirm — “dis + affirm”
  5. suffixed as disaffirmation — “disaffirm + ation”

Definitions

  1. The act of denial

    The act of denial; a declaration that something is not true.

  2. Repudiation of self or other.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for disaffirmation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA