Denial Meaning. A restraint or limitation of ones own desires or interests. Denial noun NOT TRUE C2 C a statement that something is not true or does not exist.
Denial Psychiatry A primitiveego defensemechanism by which a person unconsciously negates the existence of a disease or other stress-producing reality in his environment by disavowing thoughts feelings wishes needs or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable. To be in denial. 2 a 1.
Despite his denials we knew he had taken the purse.
Denial Psychiatry A primitiveego defensemechanism by which a person unconsciously negates the existence of a disease or other stress-producing reality in his environment by disavowing thoughts feelings wishes needs or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable. Refusal to satisfy a request or desire the denial of privileges. With major life traumas like losing a loved one for instance the minds first reaction is denial. Is to be fooling yourself about the reality of your situation.
