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

Bulgarian: допълнително значение (bg) Chinese: Mandarin: 含義 (cmn), 含义 (cmn) (hànyì) Croatian: konotacija (hr) f. 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.

German: Konnotation, Nebenbedeutung, Beiklang, Beigeschmack Indonesian: konotasi Irish: fochiall (ga) f. Maltese: konnotazzjoni (mt) f. Norwegian: konnotasjon (no) m. Portuguese: conotação (pt) f. Romanian: conotație (ro) f. Spanish: connotación (es) f. Swedish: konnotation (sv)

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989