denier

¹

[dih-nahy-er]

noun

1. a person who denies.

2. a person who refuses to accept the existence, truth, or validity of something despite evidence or general support for it: It makes no sense for an environmental watchdog agency to hire a denier of climate change.

   The writer is a Holocaust denier.

   It makes no sense for an environmental watchdog agency to hire a denier of climate change.

   Election deniers continue to question the integrity of the ballot counts.

denier

²

[duh-neer, den-yer, duh-nyey]

noun

1. a unit of weight indicating the fineness of fiber filaments and yarns, both silk and synthetic, and equal to a yarn weighing one gram per each 9,000 meters: used especially in indicating the fineness of women's hosiery.

2. any of various coins issued in French-speaking regions, especially a coin of France, originally of silver but later of copper, introduced in the 8th century and continued until 1794.

denier

¹

noun

1. a unit of weight used to measure the fineness of silk and man-made fibres, esp when woven into women's tights, etc. It is equal to 1 gram per 9000 metres

2. any of several former European coins of various denominations

denier

²

/ dɪˈnaɪə /

noun

1. a person who denies

Usage

The words denier and denialism are used to describe people and positions that are opposed to the validity or veracity of an explanation or narrative put forth by an authority or expert. The words are commonly used in fixed compounds that truncate the name of the official account being called into question. Thus, a denier of climate change is often called a climate denier, and a movement that refuses to accept the integrity or official results of an election is referred to as election denialism. These expressions become fixed in their shortened form, and are often then associated with a specific counternarrative, rather than broadly applying to any and all denial associated with the modifying word (e.g., climate, election, evolution, genocide).

Word History and Origins

Origin of denier¹

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English; deny + -er ¹ ( def. )

Origin of denier²

1375–1425; late Middle English < Old French < Latin dēnārius denarius

Word History and Origins

Origin of denier¹

C15: from Old French: coin, from Latin dēnārius _denarius

Example Sentences

Climate campaigner Auriel Dowty Glanville from Wimbledon said she was demonstrating because she believed the president was a "climate denier" and climate change was "the biggest threat facing us on Earth".

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The far-right politician and Holocaust denier was allowed by a judicial council to serve the remainder of his 13-year sentence in the confines of his home on health grounds on Friday, state media reports.

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We also rank high in climate change deniers and folks who believe in chem trails and think vaccines cause autism.

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Court filings in the case say Villanueva allegedly learned of the allegation that Huntsman was a Holocaust denier from former L.A.

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Climate deniers often point to the unanswered — or unanswerable — questions about climate change and insist those are good reasons to wait, to second-guess, to preserve the status quo.

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