denial (redirected from denials)

denial /de·ni·al/ (di-ni´il) in psychiatry, a defense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant internal or external realities is kept out of conscious awareness.

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de·ni·al (d-nl)

n.

An unconscious defense mechanism characterized by refusal to acknowledge painful realities, thoughts, or feelings.

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denial Psychiatry A primitive–ego defense–mechanism by which a person unconsciously negates the existence of a disease or other stress-producing reality in his environment, by disavowing thoughts, feelings, wishes, needs, or external reality factors that are consciously intolerable. See In denial.