---
title: LanguageModelError.Refusal
framework: foundationmodels
role: symbol
role_heading: Structure
path: foundationmodels/languagemodelerror/refusal
---

# LanguageModelError.Refusal

Information about a model refusal.

## Declaration

```swift
struct Refusal
```

## Overview

Overview Refusal failures indicate that the model chose not to respond to a prompt.

## Topics

### Creating an error instance

- [init(debugDescription:metadata:)](foundationmodels/languagemodelerror/refusal/init(debugdescription:metadata:).md)

### Inspecting refusal errors

- [metadata](foundationmodels/languagemodelerror/refusal/metadata.md)
- [debugDescription](foundationmodels/languagemodelerror/refusal/debugdescription.md)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)

## See Also

### Model refusal error

- [LanguageModelError.refusal(_:)](foundationmodels/languagemodelerror/refusal(_:).md)