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
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The authors see this as a refutation of the hypothesis that megalodons relied on nursery areas to rear their young, since a baby megalodon would be quite capable of hunting and killing marine mammals based on size alone.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
9 Mar. 2025
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By this point, there’s no need to rehash its difficult production: What matters is what’s on the screen, a tale of how a wayward son (Al Pacino) discovers that his mild refutations of his family’s dark business are ultimately just talk.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Confutation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confutation. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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