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Definition of Disconfirming

1. Adjective. Not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition. "The HIV test was negative"

Definition of Disconfirming

1. Adjective. Not confirming ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disconfirming

1. disconfirm [v] - See also: disconfirm

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disconfirming

Literary usage of Disconfirming

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Critical Perspectives On Racial And Ethnic Differences In Health In Late Life by Norman B. Anderson, Rodolfo A. Bulatao, Barney Cohen (2004)
"... maintaining anxiety in the face of disconfirming data. However, the chronic perception of threat may lead to a restriction of behavior such that the ..."

2. The Validity of Testing in Education & Employment by Eileen R. Rudert (1997)
"However, what content validity studies need is the disconfirming hypothesis: What is not included? Is the overall balance of the ..."

3. Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males: Closing the Achievement Gapby Alfred W. Tatum by Alfred W. Tatum (2005)
"... during-reading strategies (monitoring comprehension, creating visual images, constructing questions, confirming and disconfirming prior notions, ..."

4. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1921)
"We know that to go on confirming or disconfirming a judgment by other judgments beyond a certain stage is superfluous. What is confirmed by a few has little ..."

5. Dispositional Properties by David Weissman (1965)
"This time, Carnap requires valid arguments for Qq and Q5- Together, the confirming or positive, and disconfirming or negative, reduction sentences ..."

6. Paradoxes of Free Will by Gunther Siegmund Stent (2002)
"The logical force of counterexamples is much less compelling, how in disconfirming general propositions in 'soft' disciplines, such as bii and social ..."

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