different between denialist vs denier

English

Etymology

denial +? -ist

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??na?(j)?l?st/

Noun

denialist (plural denialists)

1. (derogatory) One who denies an assertion in a controversial debate.
   • 2004, The Sunday Times, November 21 (online)

     The whole point of the TAC and other Aids activists is that the country can never deal with its Aids problem while the president is an Aids denialist, and while the government keeps putting back the timetable for providing ARVs.

   • 2005, The Cape Times 2005-03-11 (online)

     The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has found in favour of the Treatment Action Campaign, which complained to it about an advertisement that was placed by a controversial German Aids denialist and which said, among other things, that anti-retrovirals were poisonous.

Usage notes

• This is usually used by those who make the assertion, or by those who implicitly hold the assertion to be true, of others. It is rarely used self-descriptively.

Translations

See also

• denier

Adjective

denialist (comparative more denialist, superlative most denialist)

1. Relating to denial in a controversial debate.

Translations

Synonyms

• negationist

Related terms

• denialism

Anagrams

• Latinised, disentail

English

Etymology 1

From Old French denier, from Latin denarius. Doublet of dinar.

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?ny?'
• enPR: d?nî(r)', IPA^(key): /d??n??(?)/ (coin)
  
• enPR: d?n'y?(r), IPA^(key): /?d?nj?(?)/ (unit of fineness of yarn)
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

denier (plural deniers)

1. (now historical) An old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou.
   • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 117:

     A bronze denier bearing the inscription CONRADUS around a central cross, was minted in Lugdunum.

2. A unit of linear density which indicates the fineness of fiber or yarn, equal to one gram per 9000 meters, used especially to measure or indicate the fineness of hosiery. Originally equal to the weight of a denier coin per 9600 aunes.
   • 2002, Jill Mansell, Staying at Daisy's:

     Upstairs she rummaged through her chest of drawers, finally unearthing an unopened pack of ten denier barely blacks.

Translations

See also

• tex

Etymology 2

deny +? -er.

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?n?'?(r), IPA^(key): /d??na??(?)/

Noun

denier (plural deniers)

1. One who denies or forbids something.
   • 2003, ABA Journal (volume 89)

     Also, visitation deniers don't always get off with a slap on the wrist.

2. One who denies the existence of something.

   Holocaust denier

   global warming denier

   AIDS denier

Related terms

• denialism
• denialist

Translations

Anagrams

• Edirne, Nereid, diener, nereid, reined

Finnish

Noun

denier

1. denier (unit of measure)
2. denier (old coin)

Declension

Anagrams

• dreeni, reiden

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French denier, inherited from Latin d?n?rius. Doublet of dénaire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.nje/

Noun

denier m (plural deniers)

1. denier (coin)
2. (by extension) money
3. denier (unit of weight)

Derived terms

• deniers publics

Further reading

• “denier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• de rien

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French denier, Latin d?n?rius.

Noun

denier m (plural deniers)

1. denier (coin)

Old French

Etymology

From Latin d?n?rius.

Noun

denier m (oblique plural deniers, nominative singular deniers, nominative plural denier)

1. denier (coin)

Descendants

• English: denier (borrowing)
• Middle French: denier
  • French: denier

Romanian

Etymology

From French denier.

Noun

denier m (plural denieri)

1. denier (weight)

Declension

Swedish

Noun

denier c

1. denier

Declension

Anagrams

• diener