Plural of negation
regular plural
The plural of negation is negations.
Forms of negation
| Singular | negation /nɪˈɡeɪʃn̩/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | negations |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Negations in a sentence
- Wild beasts, addicts, and Orientals are alike feared as antihumans, negations of humans.2002, Keith McMahon, The Fall of the God of Money, page 190. From the entry antihuman
- This panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.1964, Charles Hartshorne, Man's Vision of God and the Logic of Theism, page 348. From the entry panentheism
- The structural theory doesn't only focus on the negations, repressions, disavowals, and deadenings of the ego in the face of its encounters within and without.2012, Daniel Sapen, Freud's Lost Chord: Discovering Jazz in the Resonant Psyche, page 38. From the entry deadening
- So, once more, when we search below the negations and repudiations of the frontier we come upon a germinal positivism and affirmativism.1931, Percival Chubb, On the Religious Frontier: From an Outpost of Ethical Religion. From the entry affirmativism
- During this process, a part of speech such as noun, verb, adverb, adjective, conjunctions, negations and the like are assigned to every word in the sentences.2017, A. Sheik Abdullah, S. Selvakumar, A. M. Abirami, “An Introduction to Data Analytics: Its Types and Its Applications”, in Shrawan…. From the entry pos
Meaning of negation
- noun The act of negating something.
- noun A denial or contradiction.
- noun 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".).
Questions about the plural of negation
- What is the plural of negation?
- The plural of negation is negations.
- Is negation countable?
- Negation is a countable and uncountable noun.
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