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over- +‎ negation

Noun

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overnegation (uncountable)

  1. (Buddhism) excessive negation
    • 1998, Gay Watson, The Resonance of Emptiness, page 80:
      Firmly based in meditative practice and reacting to a perceived overnegation tending toward the nihilistic in Madhyamaka teachings, Yōgacāra doctrines are concerned with the non duality [sic] of subject and object, which for them are impositions upon the non-dual flow of perceptions, sometimes termed Mind.