climate denialism; vaccine denialism; Holocaust denialism
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Denialism
//dɪˈnaɪ(j)əlɪzəm//
Synonyms for "denialism" (2 found)
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18 translations across 13 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- ժխտողականություն noun (position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 否認論 /否认论 noun (position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence)
Dutch
1 entries- negationisme noun (position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence)
Finnish
2 entries- denialismi noun (position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence)
- kiistäminen noun (position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence)
French
2 entries- dénialisme noun (position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence)
- négationnisme noun (position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence)
Galician
1 entries- negacionismo noun (position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence)
German
2 entries- Leugnung noun (position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence)
- Verleugnung noun (position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence)
Italian
1 entries- negazionismo noun (position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence)
Polish
1 entries- negatywizm noun (position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence)
Portuguese
1 entries- negacionismo noun (position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- denijalizam noun (position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence)
Slovak
3 entries- popieranie noun (position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence)
- popieračstvo noun (position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence)
- poprenie noun (position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence)
Spanish
1 entries- negacionismo noun (position of those who reject propositions that are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
At this point Rudd confronts a new denialism. Just as John Howard was wrong to deny the confessional value of the apology, many Laborites are wrong to deny the abject failures of past generation policies.
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Denialism is an expansion, an intensification, of denial. At root, denial and denialism are simply a subset of the many ways humans have developed to use language to deceive others and themselves. Denial can be as simple as refusing to accept that someone else is speaking truthfully.
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In other words, the pattern of resistance to the coronavirus vaccines looks less like COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and more like COVID-19 denialism.
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