denial
n.
1520s; see deny + -al(2). Replaced earlier denyance (mid-15c.). Meaning "unconscious suppression of painful or embarrassing feelings" first attested 1914 in A.A. Brill's translation of Freud's "Psychopathology of Everyday Life"; phrase in denial popularized 1980s.
〔李〕[deni（ ←deny）v .否认；-al →] n. the act of denying否认