What's the difference between denial and immaterialism?
Denial
Definition:
(n.) The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation.
(n.) A refusal to admit the truth of a statement, charge, imputation, etc.; assertion of the untruth of a thing stated or maintained; a contradiction.
(n.) A refusal to grant; rejection of a request.
(n.) A refusal to acknowledge; disclaimer of connection with; disavowal; -- the contrary of confession; as, the denial of a fault charged on one; a denial of God.
Example Sentences:
(1) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(2) The denial of justice to victims of British torture, some of which Britain admits, is set to continue.
(3) The Tea Party movement has turned climate denial into a litmus test of conservative credentials – and that has made climate change one of the most sharp divisions between Obama and Romney.
(4) Paddy Crerand was interviewed on Irish radio station Newstalk this morning and was in complete denial that Ferguson was about to retire.
(5) "After a period of denial," he said, he and the producers had parted company.
(6) Denial, minimization, anger, withdrawal and noncompliance may occur.
(7) UK in denial over Saudi arms sales being used in Yemen, claims Oxfam Read more A previous draft report prepared by the arms export controls select committee was set to call for a suspension of UK arms sales to Saudi pending an independent investigation into the way the Saudi-led coalition was conducting a bombing campaign in Yemen.
(8) Canadian film director Atom Egoyan, whose parents were Armenian-Egyptians, once said: "You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's marginal for the most part.
(9) Denial, resistance, countertransference, and relapse to addictive behaviors are all potential barriers that are often encountered when attempting to treat this population.
(10) As his campaign gained momentum, many have been in denial.
(11) While this is something that gives substance to the familiar cry of “Never again,” it will be up to the countries in the western Balkans, and in particular Bosnia and Herzegovina, to engage in an honest reckoning with the past, rather than narratives based on chauvinism or denial.
(12) "The same people who have those laws (banning Holocaust denial) are saying we shouldn't have them.
(13) The reality is they seem to be in denial that the Welsh budget is shrinking yet they seem to be calling for more money to be spent in practically every area.
(14) On Thursday he told the Guardian: “There is no more strenuous denial than the one I am giving.
(15) Shortly after Blair and Straw issued their denials, Sir Richard Dearlove, who was head of MI6 at the time, said: "It was a political decision, having very significantly disarmed Libya, for the government to co-operate with Libya on Islamist terrorism.
(16) To determine the prevalence of off-label anticancer drug use (ie, using drugs to treat conditions other than those listed on the Food and Drug Administration's approved drug label), the extent of reimbursement denials for these uses, and the effect of denials on the treatment of cancer patients.
(17) Factor analysis identified three almost uncorrelated coping factors: turning to others; problem solving; and denial.
(18) The move follows months of prevarication by the prime minister with carefully worded denials.
(19) He said that few in the media or in politics are convinced by Coulson's repeated denials that he knew about phone-hacking at the paper when he edited it.
(20) The unexpected admission breaks Pakistan's policy of blanket denial of involvement.
Immaterialism
Definition:
(n.) The doctrine that immaterial substances or spiritual being exist, or are possible.
(n.) The doctrine that external bodies may be reduced to mind and ideas in a mind; any doctrine opposed to materialism or phenomenalism, esp. a system that maintains the immateriality of the soul; idealism; esp., Bishop Berkeley's theory of idealism.
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of cigarettes consumed was apparently immaterial.
(2) "Every bit of information, no matter how irrelevant or immaterial, is sensationalised, where opinions and even accusations are treated as fact."
(3) He made a controlled change for Nasri on for Navas and a defensive change, Demichelis for Sterling, so at this moment everyone knows the 1-0 is a result they want to keep.” Pellegrini was pleased with his side’s performance but believes City’s points advantage over Chelsea is immaterial.
(4) But, “in a way, it’s a bit immaterial whether the rain comes and puts it out or doesn’t put it out.
(5) Because people whose entire news network is dedicated to stoking the fear, anger and passions of citizens by way of animating myths and repeated use of the word “they” – they all know that 100% accuracy is immaterial to that which the heart yearns to hear.
(6) In the dead above 65 the difference between age-dependent and denture-induced alterations of the parenchyma was statistically immaterial.
(7) Where the money was going or not going was immaterial.
(8) The purpose of this paper is to describe a procedure that appears to have been lost with time and that reduces excess density [immaterial of the cause] on radiographs.
(9) This week's report says that government action is immaterial, drug consumption being unaffected by changes in classification, prison sentencing or education.
(10) But Britain prompted the creation of a second funding strand known as "immaterial assistance" to cover counselling and budget maintenance but not food banks.
(11) The effects of hemoglobin and methemoglobin were virtually identical, suggesting that the oxidation state of the metallic center is immaterial, and analyses of peritoneal contents during lethal peritonitis promoted by either adjuvant revealed insignificant interconversions of these compounds.
(12) The given paper is concerned with a study into electropulse diagnosis of changes in the anus in 31 patients without derangement of locking function, with immaterial functional disorders, and with gross organic pathology.
(13) Temperature was immaterial to salmonellae in broths with ambient slightly better than 35 C, but shigellae preferred 20 C and showed a 50% failure rate at 40 C, ambient being equal to 35 C. The preferential rank of broths in efficacy was GN greater than selenite greater than saline greater than CB greater than direct for salmonellae; for shigellae, GN greater than saline greater than direct greater than CB greater than selenite, with selenite proving to be unsuitable for shigellae.
(14) To be frank, I think that is a rather immaterial point.
(15) However, when examining rank order statistics for visiting and out-patient referral rates, it was immaterial for most doctors which denominator was chosen.
(16) The main objective of youth health care is to promote health as well as development in interaction with environmental factors (material and immaterial).
(17) The curve generated from the cardiac region of interest (ROI) provided clearances values that had a high correlation coefficient (0.939-0.951) compared to the multiple-plasma sample technique immaterial of the timing of the blood sample.
(18) "The tenant's own circumstances happen to be immaterial … The issue is one of turning a subsidised property into a private let," Moat chief executive Brian Johnson said in a letter to Andre's MP.
(19) Wether infusion took place 30, 15 or five days before drying off appeared immaterial.
(20) Previous clonal analysis showed that the epidermal genotype was immaterial in knot formation.