self-denial

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Refusing & rejecting
abjuration
abnegate
abnegation
bar
bat something/someone away
decline
disavow
gainsay
oppositional
opt
opt out
pass on
pass something up
punt on something
rebel
refuse
sb wouldn't touch something/someone with a bargepole/barge poleidiom
tear
wash your hands of somethingidiom
would not do something for all the tea in Chinaidiom

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Denying & contradicting

denialnoun (NOT ACCEPT)

an unwillingness to accept that something unpleasant is true: 拒绝相信;拒绝接受
in denial He's still in denial about the break-up of his relationship.他仍然无法接受他们分手这一事实。

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Not believing
anti-science
anti-scientific
are my eyes deceiving me?idiom
as if!idiom
authority
foot
iconoclasm
iconoclastic
in denial
in your dreams!idiom
incredulity
joke
salt
satisfied
self-deception
since whenidiom
take something with a pinch of saltidiom
tell me another one!idiom
worship
yeah

denialnoun (AGAINST BELIEFS)

the situation in which someone behaves in a way that goes against their beliefs and what they think is right: 违反，背叛（原则，信念）
denial ofIf I did what you ask, it would be a denial of everything I stand for (= believe in).如果我照你说的做了，那就等于背叛了我的信念。

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Opinions, beliefs and points of view
accepted wisdom
Afrocentric
agnosticism
anti-drug
anti-ideological
bubble
creed
have/take a notion to do somethingidiom
helicopter view
heretical
heretically
hot take
point of view
pole
politics
posture
pretension
prism
proposition
tick

denial | American Dictionary

denial
noun
us/dɪˈnɑɪ·əl/

denialnoun (CLAIM)

[ C ]
a statement that something is not true:
His statement is not a denial.

denialnoun (REFUSAL)

[ U/C ]
the act of not allowing someone to do or have something:
Planning staff recommended denial of the project.

denialnoun (FAILURE TO ADMIT)

[ U ]
a state in which someone will not admit that they have knowledge, responsibility, or feelings:
He claims he’s not sick, but I think he’s just in denial.

Examples of denial

denial
The platform could also be inundated by denial of service attacks.
Idealizing the positive defensive and protective aspects of warriorhood may also involve a denial of the destructive, senseless realities of modern warfare.
He adopts an interactional footing in which he is merely relaying denials previously expressed by himself and others.
These elements combine to create a profile that is an outright denial of the semiotics of the meyhanes and the luxury seafood restaurants.
It can be suggested that denial of access to adequate physical mobility is a contributory factor within each of these dimensions of exclusion.
Indeed, it is exactly the sort of denial that prompted the formulation of the neutrality thesis in the first place.
There is often a culture of denial within some cultures toward mental illness.
So a global denial of their veridicality would amount to an ontological claim that is, if not synonymous with atheism, at least antagonistic to theism.
Their feeling of security was a self-deception, they were effacing an aspect of reality, a phenomenon which, in clinical psychiatry, is labelled denial.
While relying on established method, simultaneously there is fluidity in treatment, for example denial is accepted if it helps achieve the goals.
What most obviously differentiates the two lexemes is the sense of denial of some prior point of view that each gives rise to.
It is a denial of life camouflaged as an acceptance of life.
Figurative thinking can hardly be subsumed under the generic category of denial.
In such a system, the judge's discretionary powers are limitless, and their arbitrariness would entail a denial of basic human rights.
The reconstruction of old age as a time of agelessness is the epitome of such denial.
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Collocations withdenial

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categorical denial
This is in contrast to the categorical denial of any meaningful change, discussed above.
complete denial
Members of the group expressed diverse reactions to their ageing, from completedenial to acute awareness.
denial of access
It can be suggested that denialofaccess to adequate physical mobility is a contributory factor within each of these dimensions of exclusion.
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