REFUTATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does refutation mean?
• REFUTATION (noun)
The noun REFUTATION has 3 senses:
1. the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
2. any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
3. the act of determining that something is false
Familiarity information: REFUTATION used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• REFUTATION (noun)
Meaning:
The speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
refutation; defence; defense
Context examples:
his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive / in defense he said the other man started it
Hypernyms ("refutation" is a kind of...):
answer (the speech act of replying to a question)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "refutation"):
confutation (the speech act of refuting conclusively)
rebuttal (the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument)
Meaning:
Any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
falsification; disproof; refutation
Hypernyms ("refutation" is a kind of...):
evidence; grounds (your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "refutation"):
reductio; reductio ad absurdum ((reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction)
confutation (evidence that refutes conclusively)
counterexample (refutation by example)
Meaning:
The act of determining that something is false
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
falsifying; refutal; disproof; refutation; falsification
Hypernyms ("refutation" is a kind of...):
determination; finding (the act of determining the properties of something)
