noun: the act of asserting that something alleged is not true.
noun: the act of refusing to comply (as with a request) ("It resulted in a complete denial of his privileges").
noun: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts.
noun: renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others.
"BLIND FAINT-HEARTED, DOUBTING WORLD! … Humanity is not yet sufficiently advance to be willingly led by the discoverer’s keen searching sense. But who knows? Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence–by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the heartless strife of commercial existence. So do we get our light. So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.“ [Nikola Tesla, “The Transmission of Electrical Energy Without Wires As a Means for Furthering Peace." Electrical World and Engineer. January 7, 1905, p. 21-24.]
See Also
Denialism
Calumny
Calumniate
Cognitive Dissonance
Resistance to Innovation