nay-saying

English

Alternative forms

• naysaying

Verb

nay-saying

1. Present participle of nay-say.

Noun

nay-saying (plural nay-sayings)

1. Negating; denial; the personality trait of contrariness.
   • 2000, John F. McGrew and John G. Bilotta, "The effectiveness of risk management: measuring what didn't happen," Management Decision, vol. 38, no. 4, p. 295,

     We need a tool to extract from the risk assessment and intervention contingency tables any bias toward yea-saying or nay-saying.

References

• “naysaying” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.