negação

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin negatio, negationem.

Pronunciation
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /neɡaˈsɐ̃w̃/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /nɨɡɐˈsɐ̃w̃/
  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
  • Hyphenation: ne‧ga‧ção

Noun

negação f (plural negações)

  1. denial; negation
  2. negation (the act of negating something)
  3. (logic) negation (proposition which is the contradictory of another proposition)

Further reading
  • negação in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
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