connotation

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English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

connotation (plural connotations)

1. A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.

   The connotations of the phrase "you are a dog" are that you are physically unattractive or morally reprehensible, not that you are a canine.

2. A technical term in logic used by J. S. Mill and later logicians to refer to the attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, and contrasted with denotation.

   The two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" have different connotations but the same denotation (i.e. the planet Venus).

Antonyms

• denotation

Synonyms

• intension

Related terms

• connotative
• connotatively

Translations

suggested or implied meaning

• Asturian: connotación (ast) f
• Bulgarian: допълнително значение (bg) (dopǎlnitelno značenie)
• Catalan: connotació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 含義 (cmn), 含义 (cmn) (hànyì)

• Czech: konotace (cs) f
• Danish: konnotation (da) c, medbetydning (da) c, bibetydning (da) c
• Dutch: connotatie (nl) f, bijbetekenis (nl) f, bijklank (nl) m, associatie (nl) f, gevoelswaarde (nl) f
• Finnish: konnotaatio (fi)
• French: connotation (fr) f
• Galician: connotación (gl) f
• German: Konnotation, Nebenbedeutung, Beiklang, Beigeschmack

• Indonesian: konotasi
• Irish: fochiall (ga) f
• Italian: connotazione (it) f
• Malay: konotasi (ms)
• Maltese: konnotazzjoni (mt) f
• Norwegian: konnotasjon (no) m
• Occitan: connotacion (oc) f
• Portuguese: conotação (pt) f
• Romanian: conotație (ro) f
• Serbo-Croatian: konotacija (sh) f
• Spanish: connotación (es) f
• Swedish: konnotation (sv)
• Turkish: tâlî mânâ (tr), yan anlam (tr)

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989