"nonaffirmation" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: non- + affirmation Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|non|affirmation}} non- + affirmation Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} nonaffirmation (uncountable)
  1. Lack of affirmation; failure to affirm something. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-nonaffirmation-en-noun-OzEppxXI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with non-

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          "text": "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.",
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