overnegation
English
Etymology
over- + negation
Noun
overnegation (uncountable)
- (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.
- 1998, Gay Watson, The Resonance of Emptiness (page 80)