negation
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement
Types & categories
- statement hypernym
Related & opposite
- negate derivation
Sense 2 noun
the speech act of negating
Types & categories
- disaffirmation hypernym
- contradiction hyponym
- cancellation hyponym
Related & opposite
- negate derivation
Sense 3 noun
(logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false
Types & categories
- proposition hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | negate |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | statement |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | negate |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | disaffirmation |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | contradiction |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | cancellation |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | negate |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | logic |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | proposition |