0 a statement in which you say that something is not true, or the act of making a statement like this -- zaprzeczenie
a denial of his guilt
1 not allowing someone to have or do something -- pozbawienie, odmowa
The reconstruction of old age as a time of agelessness is the epitome of such denial.
In such a system, the judge's discretionary powers are limitless, and their arbitrariness would entail a denial of basic human rights.
Figurative thinking can hardly be subsumed under the generic category of denial.
It is a denial of life camouflaged as an acceptance of life.
What most obviously differentiates the two lexemes is the sense of denial of some prior point of view that each gives rise to.
While relying on established method, simultaneously there is fluidity in treatment, for example denial is accepted if it helps achieve the goals.
Their feeling of security was a self-deception, they were effacing an aspect of reality, a phenomenon which, in clinical psychiatry, is labelled denial.
So a global denial of their veridicality would amount to an ontological claim that is, if not synonymous with atheism, at least antagonistic to theism.
