deniers
They reject truth
Deniers are people who refuse to accept established facts or evidence, typically regarding matters of scientific or historical consensus: *climate change deniers*, *Holocaust deniers*.
The term carries strong disapproval, implying willful ignorance rather than honest skepticism.
Separately, a denier is a unit measuring the fineness of yarn or fiber: *15-denier stockings*.
Act of declining
- disavowalRejection of connection
- repudiationFormal refusal to accept
- contradictionOpposing claims, incompatible together
- dismissalRemoval from position
negation · disbelief · rebuff · spurning · naysayers · discrediting · nonacceptance · abjuration
Rising planetary temperatures
- greenhouse gasesEmissions that trap heat
- emissionsSubstances released into air
- fossil fuelsCombustible prehistoric organic deposits
- carbon dioxideRespiration byproduct, photosynthesis fuel
skeptics · scientists · evidence · data · consensus · IPCC · research · facts
Thinness letting light through
- opacityImpermeability to light
- stockingsFitted leg coverings
- tightsStretchy leg garment
- pantyhoseSheer nylon leg garment
nylons · legwear · opaque · sheer · hosiery · durability · weight · fineness
Reexamining established doctrine
- antisemitismBigotry toward Jewish people
- historical denialRejecting established past events
- AuschwitzNazi extermination camp
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
survivors · testimony · documentation · Nuremberg · evidence · hate speech · propaganda · laws
refusal
Act of declining
- disavowalRejection of connection
- repudiationFormal refusal to accept
- contradictionOpposing claims, incompatible together
dismissal · negation · disbelief · rebuff · spurning · naysayers · discrediting · nonacceptance · abjuration · renunciation
global warming
Rising planetary temperatures
- greenhouse gasesEmissions that trap heat
- emissionsSubstances released into air
- fossil fuelsCombustible prehistoric organic deposits
carbon dioxide · skeptics · scientists · evidence · data · consensus · IPCC · research · facts · misinformation
sheerness
Thinness letting light through
pantyhose · nylons · legwear · opaque · sheer · hosiery · durability · weight · fineness · lycra
revisionism
Reexamining established doctrine
- antisemitismBigotry toward Jewish people
- historical denialRejecting established past events
- AuschwitzNazi extermination camp
genocide · survivors · testimony · documentation · Nuremberg · evidence · hate speech · propaganda · laws · prosecution
- truth avoidersavoiders, deflectors, obfuscators, gaslighters, suppressors
- HolocaustHolocaust, Auschwitz, concentration camps, Holocaust survivors, gas chambers
- historic coinspenny, pennies, shilling, shillings, guinea
- criticscritic, critics, criticizer, criticizers, faultfinder
- obstaclesbarriers, block, obstacles, barrier, blockers
- nonbelieversatheist, atheists, agnostic, agnostics, nonbeliever
deniersbelievers
Those having faith
accepters · affirmers · adherents · proponents · supporters
deniersaccepters
Those who consent
recognizers · confirmers · affirmers · witnesses · testifiers
- access deniedEntry permission withheld
- permission deniedAccess refusal message
- climate denierOne rejecting greenhouse theory
- election denierOne who rejects certified results
- moon landing denierRejects crewed space missions
- denied claimRequest formally refused