importance

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ɪmˈpɔːtəns/, X-SAMPA: /Im"pO:t@ns/
• (GenAm) IPA: /ɪmˈpɔɹtəns/, X-SAMPA: /Im"pOr`t@ns/

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Noun

importance (uncountable)

1. The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
2. significance or prominence
3. personal status or standing

Translations

quality or condition of being important or worthy of note

• Arabic: اهمية (ar) (ahamiyya) f
• Bulgarian: важност (bg) (vážnоst) f 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重要 (cmn) (zhòngyào)

• Czech: důležitost (cs) f
• Dutch: belangrijkheid (nl) f, belang (nl) n
• Esperanto: graveco (eo)
• Finnish: tärkeys, painoarvo
• French: importance (fr) f
• German: Wichtigkeit (de) f, Belang (de) m
• Haitian Creole: enpòtans
• Icelandic: mikilvægi (is) n
• Irish: tábhacht (ga) f
• Italian: importanza (it) f
• Japanese: 重要性 (ja) (jyūyōsei), 大切さ (ja) (taisetsusa)

• Khmer: សារៈសំខាន់ (km) (sarsaamkhan)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: گرنگی

• Latvian: svarīgums (lv) m, nozimība (lv) f
• Romanian: importanță (ro) f, însemnătate (ro) f
• Russian: важность (ru) (važnostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: cudrom (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ва́жно̄ст (sh) f, зна̏ча̄ј (sh) m, зна́че̄ње (sh) n

  Roman: vážnōst (sh) f, znȁčāj (sh) m, znáčēnje (sh) n

• Spanish: importancia (es)
• Swahili: umuhimu (sw)
• Swedish: vikt (sv) c
• Zulu: ukubaluleka (zu) 15, ubukhulu (zu) 14

significance or prominence

• Bulgarian: значение (bg) (znаčénie) n 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重要 (cmn) (zhòngyào)

• Estonian: tähtsus (et)
• Finnish: tärkeys (fi)
• German: Wichtigkeit (de) f
• Greek: σημασία (el) (simasía) f 
• Irish: tábhacht (ga) f
• Italian: importanza (it) f
• Japanese: 重要性 (ja) (jyūyōsei), 大切さ (ja) (taisetsusa)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: گرنگی

• Latvian: svarīgums (lv) m, nozimība (lv) f
• Romanian: importanță (ro) f
• Scottish Gaelic: cudrom (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зна́че̄ње (sh) n, зна̏ча̄ј (sh) m, ва́жно̄ст (sh) f

  Roman: znáčēnje (sh) n, znȁčāj (sh) m, vážnōst (sh) f

• Swahili: umuhimu (sw)

personal status or standing

• Japanese: 名声 (ja) (meisei)
• Latvian: svarīgums (lv) m

• Swahili: umuhimu (sw)

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• Telugu: ప్రాముఖ్యత (praamukhyata)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛ̃ pɔʁ tɑ̃s/

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  l'importance

Noun

importance f (plural importances)

1. importance
2. significance

Related terms

• important

Anagrams

• comprenait