hypernegation

English

Etymology

hyper- (“excessive”) +‎ negation

Noun

hypernegation (uncountable)

  1. Negation that reinforces, rather than cancels, other negation in a sentence.[1]
Examples

Not with my son, you won't.

Antonyms

References
  1. “Negation”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy‎, 7 January 2015, § "Negative concord and its relations"
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