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

A few sentences will point to the significancy of the Lobby. 

From Here and There in London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

What is added in the Scripture narration of one of these latter cases will illustrate the significancy of this mode of investiture.

From Coronation Anecdotes by Giles Gossip

Space in reference to time has no significancy.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones

All this amorous and poetical caressing of the May discovers, in the twice resting the process of events in "The Knight's Tale" upon the observance of May-day, a significancy otherwise perhaps less evident.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various

Now, the Pharisees, when they multiplied their washings of hands, of cups and pots, brazen vessels and tables, had the same respect of significancy before their eyes.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

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