negation

1. (uncountable)The act of negating something.

   Verneinung, Negierung

   отрица́ниеotricánije

   запере́ченняzaperéčennja

   the speech act of negating

2. (countable)A denial or contradiction.

   Verneinung

   отка́зotkáz, опроверже́ниеoproveržénije

   a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement

3. (countable)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".)

   Negation

   отрица́ниеotricánije

4. (countable, uncountable)The logical operation which obtains such (negated) propositions.

5. (countable)A negative particle; a word, particularly an adverb, with a negative meaning: for instance, no and not in English, nōn, haud and nē in Latin, οὐ and μή in ancient Greek.

1. In English, there's no double negation.

   ruВ английском нет двойного отрицания.

   deIm Englischen gibt es keine doppelte Verneinung.

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2. The main problem with antitheism is its negation of my divinity.

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3. How does Esperanto, with its word-order freedom, deal with scope of negation?

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4. In Turkish, a single verb form can encode tense, aspect, mood, negation, interrogation, voice, person, and number—all through successive suffixes.

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