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denegative

denegative adjective: of or pertaining to denial or negation. Having the effect or quality of denying or negating.

Adjective

denegative (comparative more denegative, superlative most denegative)

  1. Of or pertaining to denial or negation. Having the effect or quality of denying or negating.
    • Derrida draws attention to the denegative logic required to speak of what is most important by not speaking of it, by avoiding speaking of it; a logic he finds at work in apophatic texts from Plato's Timaeus to Eckhart's sermons to Dionysius' hierarchies to Heidegger's late unpublished lectures

Forms of denegative

comparativemore denegative
superlativemost denegative

Questions about denegative

What does denegative mean?
Denegative means of or pertaining to denial or negation. Having the effect or quality of denying or negating.
What part of speech is denegative?
Denegative is an adjective.

Words near denegative in the dictionary

  1. denegated
  2. denegates
  3. denegating
  4. denegation
  5. denegations
  6. denegative
  7. denegrate
  8. denehole
  9. deneholes
  10. Deneisha
  11. Deneology

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