Is disconfirm a word? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The next fields to succumb to the charms of disconfirm seem to have been education and psychiatry (both in 1938) and then symbolic logic (in 1940) In subsequent years, disconfirm gained a following in various other academic fields If you have any lingering doubts as to its legitimacy, perhaps this next example will serve to discorroborate them
antonyms - What is the opposite of the word confirm? - English . . . Disconfirm: The empirical data obtained in a test—or, as we shall prefer to say, the observation sentences describing those data—may then either confirm or disconfirm the given hypothesis, or they may be neutral with respect to it Disprove: By careful observation, I have disproved that the earth orbits the sun
How does one identify cacophonous and euphonious words? It might be possible thus to confirm or disconfirm that these preferences transcend cultural differences, as preferences in facial appearance have been shown to do There is some published research on euphony, such as Lloyd Bishop, "Phonological Correlates of Euphony" The French Review 49 1 (1975): 11-22