English to afrikaans meaning of

denial

Die woordeboekdefinisie van die woord "ontkenning" is die handeling om te weier om iets wat waar of werklik is, te erken of te aanvaar. Dit kan ook verwys na die toestand van 'n toestand van ongeloof of die verwerping van 'n bepaalde oortuiging of idee. Ontkenning kan 'n bewuste of onbewuste verdedigingsmeganisme wees wat mense gebruik om moeilike situasies of emosies te hanteer. Dit word dikwels geassosieer met verslawing, trauma en geestesgesondheidskwessies.

Synonyms

  1. defence
  2. demurrer
  3. defense

Sentence Examples

  1. I told her she was in denial, and she told me there were several rivers in the Underworld, but the Nile was not one of them.
  2. She shook her head back and forth, as if denial would make the situation go away.
  3. Her soul had instinctively made a space for it, and their acts of denial had left that space an empty, aching void.
  4. I fell off the chair and landed on my knees covering my face with shaking hands as I cried out in denial.
  5. It is a path filled with contradictions, of dichotomies of both denial and gracious acceptance.
  6. The denial was right there, right on the tip of his tongue!
  7. On a whim, I entertained denial of what had happened.
  8. My curiosity was muted, because I was absorbed in my own despair and denial.
  9. Kila knew what that kind of denial was like, though he refused to think about it.
  10. It called for blood, and I shook my head in denial.
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