A refusal to acknowledge a threatening, uncomfortable, or inconvenient truth, denial is a developmentally normal, unconscious defense mechanism of early childhood. Children may deny a "bad" feeling ...

We’re all in denial. We’d barely get through the day if we worried that we or people we love could die today. Life is unpredictable, and denial helps us cope and focus on what we must in order to ...

The assault on a network that floods it with so many additional requests that regular traffic is either slowed or completely interrupted. An attempt by a malicious (or unwitting) user, process, or ...

A condition in which a system can no longer respond to normal requests. See denial-of-service attack. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.