English-Finnish translations for denial

• torjuminen
• kieltävä vastaus
• kiistäminen
  Toinen on kotitalouksien eurokolikoiden ja -seteleiden käyttöönoton jälkeen kärsimän inflaation kiistäminen. Secondly, the denial of the inflation suffered by households since the introduction of euro coins and notes.
  Euroopan unionin oikeuden ensisijaisuuden kiistäminen on väärin, koska se pätee edelleen salaisesti, ja ulkoministeri on edelleen sellainen, kuin halusimme hänestä tehdä. Denial of the primacy of European law is false, for it continues to have a subterranean existence and the foreign minister is still what we wanted him to be.

Definition of denial

• The negation in logic
• A refusal to comply with a request
• An assertion of untruth
• Refusal to believe a problem exists
• A defense mechanism involving a refusal to accept the truth of a phenomenon or prospect

Examples

• The denial of "There might be X" is the null, "False, there is no X
• Every time we asked for an interview we got a denial
• The singer has issued a sweeping denial of all the rumors
• We couldnt break through his denial about being alcoholic
• He is in denial that he has a drinking problem

Related words

• denialist
• self-denial
• denialism
• denial of pregnancy
• denial of reality
• denial of service
• denial-of-service attack
• Holocaust denial
• pregnancy denial