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connotation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun connotation has 2 senses
- connotation(n = noun.communication) intension - what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression; Array is a kind of import, meaning, significance, signification
- connotation(n = noun.cognition) Array - an idea that is implied or suggested; Array is a kind of meaning, substance
Derived forms adjective connotational1, verb connote2
Derived forms adjective connotational1, verb connote1
CIDE DICTIONARY
connotation, n. [Cf. F. connotation.].
- The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted. [1913 Webster]
- a meaning implied but not explicitly denoted by some word or expression, which may be understood in addition to the explicit primary meaning. [PJC]
- the full set of necessary properties possessed by all the objects within the extension of a term; the intensional meaning of a term, which determines the objects to which the term applies; the intension of a term. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
connotation, n.
1 that which is implied by a word etc. in addition to its literal or primary meaning (a letter with sinister connotations).
2 the act of connoting or implying.
1 that which is implied by a word etc. in addition to its literal or primary meaning (a letter with sinister connotations).
2 the act of connoting or implying.
THESAURUS
connotation
affective meaning, allegory, allusion, arcane meaning, assumption, bearing, coloration, coloring, consequence, denotation, drift, effect, essence, extension, force, gist, grammatical meaning, hint, idea, impact, implication, implied meaning, import, inference, innuendo, intension, intimation, ironic suggestion, lexical meaning, literal meaning, meaning, metaphorical sense, nuance, occult meaning, overtone, pertinence, pith, point, practical consequence, presumption, presupposition, purport, range of meaning, real meaning, reference, referent, relation, relevance, scope, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, span of meaning, spirit, structural meaning, subsense, subsidiary sense, substance, suggestion, sum, sum and substance, supposition, symbolic meaning, symbolism, tenor, tinge, totality of associations, touch, transferred meaning, unadorned meaning, undercurrent, undermeaning, undertone, value
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