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denialism
noun[ U ]
disapprovinguk /dɪˈnaɪ.əl.ɪ.zəm/ us /dɪˈnaɪ.əl.ɪ.zəm/
the claim or belief that something did not happen or is not true, when it is generally accepted that it did happen or is true:
His denialism of HIV/Aids cost thousands of lives.
We utterly reject their Holocaust denialism.
He insists there is a difference between scepticism and denialism.
See also
climate denialism
His victory dealt a significant blow to election denialism, a growing force in American politics.
Why have they given so much airtime to discredited pundits pushing denialism on climate change?
She claims that dirty money from big oil and coal companies helps promote denialism.
Her genocide denialism is shocking.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Denying & contradicting
abnegate
abnegation
breath
burst someone's bubbleidiom
contradictorily
counter-argue
debunk
deny
disabuse
disagree
dispute
I'm a Dutchmanidiom
myth-buster
myth-busting
non-acceptance
non-recognition
nonsense
recant
refute
speak for yourselfidiom
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