refutation

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

refutation (countable and uncountable, plural refutations)

1. An act of refuting or disproving; the disproving of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory by argument or countervailing proof; evidence of falseness.

   Synonyms: confutation, disproof

2. (proscribed) A vocal answer to an attack on one's assertions.

• See refute.

• self-refutation

• “refutation”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.