significancy

American  

[sig-nif-i-kuhn-see] / sɪgˈnɪf ɪ kən si /

noun

• significancies
  plural

1. significance.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• nonsignificancy
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• significancies
  plural

Etymology

Origin of significancy

From the Latin word significantia, dating back to 1585–95. See significance, -ancy

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

significancy significancies

“By so doing,” rejoined Sir Marmaduke, in a tone of satirical significancy, “you would only cause a score of like heads to sprout up in its place.”

From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid

Not the prevalence, then, but the significancy of the nickname is to be noted here.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

But inasmuch as cod. d is so scandalously corrupt that about one word in thirteen is missing throughout, the absence of nine words in this place is of no manner of importance or significancy.

From The Revision Revised by John William Burgon

I feel sure," said Mr. Somers with exquisite significancy, "I feel sure that part of my audience were at no loss for the meaning of my words.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Susan Warner

The significancy of the announcement is apparent when the opening of St. Matthew's Gospel is considered,—“The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the Son of David.”

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon

Skyward ponderings by night, canny discoveries under foot by day, quickened his mind and sight to vast and to minute significancies, until they declared an Author known to him hitherto only by tradition.

From Strong Hearts by George Washington Cable