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nonaffirmation

nonaffirmation noun: lack of affirmation; failure to affirm something.

Noun

nonaffirmation (uncountable)

  1. Lack of affirmation; failure to affirm something.
    • In general, the analyst's nonaffirmation of the patient's immediate sense of himself, together with his evident appreciation of a deeper potential, tends to dislodge the patient from the taken-for-granted texture of the immediate experience and edges him toward abstracting from his wishes and...2013, Doris K. Silverman, David L. Wolitzky, Changing Conceptions of Psychoanalysis: The Legacy of Merton M. Gill, page 168

Origin of nonaffirmation

From non- + affirmation.

Questions about nonaffirmation

What does nonaffirmation mean?
Nonaffirmation means lack of affirmation; failure to affirm something.
What part of speech is nonaffirmation?
Nonaffirmation is a noun.

Words near nonaffirmation in the dictionary

  1. nonaffiliated
  2. nonaffiliates
  3. nonaffine
  4. nonaffinitive
  5. nonaffinity
  6. nonaffirmation
  7. nonaffirmative
  8. nonaffirming
  9. nonaffix
  10. nonaffixed
  11. nonaffixes

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