significance
importance; consequence: the significance of the new treaty.
meaning; import: The familiar place had a new significance for her.
the quality of being significant or having a meaning: to give significance to dull chores.
Origin of significance
1synonym study For significance
Other words for significance
Opposites for significance
Other words from significance
- non·sig·nif·i·cance, noun
- self-sig·nif·i·cance, noun
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How to use significance in a sentence
The deadliness of the blow which had stupefied her still left her barely conscious of earthly significances.
Robin | Frances Hodgson BurnettAs it was, it seemed to Lee, a dictionary of synonyms would be helpless to make all its varied significances distinct.
Cytherea | Joseph HergesheimerWe take up a novel, perhaps, which we read five years ago; we find in it now new significances and appeals.
The Gate of Appreciation | Carleton NoyesIn his fashion he began to remember trifling significances which at the time had meant little to him.
The Rules of the Game | Stewart Edward WhiteMy word, as an exclamation with a thousand significances, could have arrived from nowhere else than Old England.
The Cruise of the Snark | Jack London
British Dictionary definitions for significance
/ (sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns) /
consequence or importance
something signified, expressed, or intended
the state or quality of being significant
statistics
a measure of the confidence that can be placed in a result, esp a substantive causal hypothesis, as not being merely a matter of chance
(as modifier): a significance level Compare confidence level See also hypothesis testing
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