denial
/dɪˈnaɪəl/noun
mass noun
1- the action of declaring something to be untrue否认：
she shook her head in denial.
她摇头表示否认。
1.1
- count noun a statement that something is not true对（某事的）否认; 否认声明：
official denials
正式否认（声明）
his denial that he was having an affair.
他否认与异性有风流韵事的声明。
1.2
- the refusal of something requested or desired拒绝：
the denial of insurance to people with certain medical conditions.
拒绝为患有某些疾病的人保险。
1.3
- Psychology refusal to acknowledge an unacceptable truth or emotion or to admit it into consciousness, used as a defence mechanism【心理】（对真实想法的）拒绝承认。
1.4
- short for SELF-DENIAL.SELF-DENIAL的简称。
1.5
- disavowal of a person as one's leader（对某人领导地位的）否认。
WORD TRENDS
In 1991 the British historian David Irving was convicted in Germany of Holocaust denial - claiming that the mass murder of the Jews and other groups by the Nazis in the Second World War never happened. In 2006 he was imprisoned on a similar charge in Austria. Holocaust denial is not a crime under UK law, but in the 21st century it is often considered taboo to deny the truth of certain concepts. After Holocaust, the commonest modifiers of denier in the Oxford English Corpus reflect some highly contentious modern issues: climate change, evolution, and global warming. Refusal to acknowledge the existence of these things is now seen as so dangerous that some green activists have called for climate change denial to be made illegal.