as in refutation
something (as an argument) that serves to disprove
he crafted an elegant confutation to the argument that animals do not feel pain
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Recent Examples of confutation
Nominalism and positivism have deluged the world with vast quantities of little-read scholarship whose underlying rationale is often the confutation of the very possibility of the larger-scale intelligibility of the world.
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M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 20 Feb. 2022
M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 20 Feb. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for confutation
refutation
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However, Israel's refutation of his statements highlights its complicated diplomatic relations with Ukraine and Russia.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 June 2025
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His win is the sign of a functioning democracy and a refutation of authoritarianism.—
E. Tammy Kim,
New Yorker,
4 June 2025
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“Confutation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confutation. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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