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negation

noun
/nɪˈɡeɪʃn̩/

Etymology

From Middle English negacioun, from Old French negacion, from Latin negātiō (“a denial; negative word”). Morphologically negate + -ion.

  1. derived from negātiō
  2. derived from negacion
  3. inherited from negacioun

Definitions

  1. The act of negating something.

    • 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

  2. A denial or contradiction.

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

  3. A proposition which is the contradictory of another proposition and which can be obtained…

    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".)

    • 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.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.

    2. A negative particle

      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.

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Derived

autonegation, devil negation, devil's negation, hypernegation, hyponegation, law of double negation, misnegation, negational, negationism, negationist, overnegation, seronegation

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at negation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at negation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at negation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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