Nonaffirmation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Nonaffirmation is a noun meaning Lack of affirmation; failure to affirm something.
Meaning
Lack of affirmation; failure to affirm something.
Example Sentences
In general, the analyst's nonaffirmation of the patient's immediate sense of himself, together with his evident appreciation of a deeper potential, tends to dislodge the patient from the taken-for-granted texture of the immediate experience and edges him toward abstracting from his wishes and assumptions into a slightly more objectivized view of himself in action.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unacknowledgment, nonacknowledgment, unassertion, nonassent, nonacquiescence, nonacknowledgement.
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