Origin: Latin suffix -tion
Refutation has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
"his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive"
"in defense he said the other man started it"
any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
the act of determining that something is false
An act of refuting or disproving; the disproving of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory by argument or countervailing proof; evidence of falseness.