negação

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin negātiōnem.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ne.ɡaˈsɐ̃w̃/ [ne.ɡaˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /nɨ.ɡɐˈsɐ̃w̃/ [nɨ.ɣɐˈsɐ̃w̃]

  • 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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