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connotation
[ kon-uh-tey-shuhn ]
noun
- the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning:
A possible connotation of “home” is “a place of warmth, comfort, and affection.”
- the act of connoting; the suggesting of an additional meaning for a word or expression, apart from its explicit meaning.
Synonyms: import, implication, undertone
- something suggested or implied by a word or thing, rather than being explicitly named or described:
“Religion” has always had a negative connotation for me.
- Logic. the set of attributes constituting the meaning of a term and thus determining the range of objects to which that term may be applied; comprehension; intension.
connotation
/ ˈkɒnəˌteɪtɪv; ˌkɒnəˈteɪʃən; kəˈnəʊtə- /
noun
- an association or idea suggested by a word or phrase; implication
- the act or fact of connoting
- logic another name for intension
connotation
- The meaning that a word suggests or implies. A connotation includes the emotions or associations that surround a word. For example, the word modern strictly means “belonging to recent times,” but the word's connotations can include such notions as “new, up to date, experimental.”
Derived Forms
- ˈconnoˌtatively, adverb
- connotative, adjective
Other Words From
- con·no·ta·tive [kon, -, uh, -tey-tiv, k, uh, -, noh, -t, uh, -], con·notive adjective
- conno·tative·ly con·notive·ly adverb
- non·conno·tative adjective
- non·conno·tative·ly adverb
- un·conno·tative adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of connotation1
Example Sentences
The “game manager” label carries a negative connotation, but Smith is one of the NFL’s best at protecting the ball.
Even the word audit itself has a lot of negative connotations, and that’s understandable.
The terms diverged when we filtered just for ones with negative connotations.
Whilst only 7% of queries will be impacted in initial roll-out, further expansion of this new passage indexing system could have much bigger connotations than one might first suspect.
This is not an example of AI taking away jobs and that more negative connotations that you get when you talk about AI and business.
But that has never struck me as terribly apt or helpful, despite its obviously negative connotation.
In case the connotation is lost, “Theater Kid” is not a good thing here.
“Linda Perry-style,” of course, carries with it a history and a very specific connotation.
Filmmaker Lauren Greenfield examines the negative connotation of the phrase and turns it into an affirmation.
It has this crazy negative connotation that I never understood.
To fix the connotation of a concrete name, or the denotation of the corresponding abstract, is to define the name.
Why, I should say it means 'skilful, clever,' and it carries with it the connotation of 'novel.'
They had been diverted from their hereditary connotation to signify impressions for which Nature did not intend them.
This term one may accept as technically correct without necessarily accepting the sinister connotation imputed to it by labor.
The specific difference is that which must be added to the connotation of the genus to complete the connotation of the species.
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