importance

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French importance, from Medieval Latin importantia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɔːtəns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɔɹtəns/, [-ʔn̩s]

  • Audio (US)

    (file)

Noun

importance (countable and uncountable, plural importances)

1. The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note.
2. significance or prominence.
3. personal status or standing.
4. Something of importance.
   • 1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 5:

     It was incessant matter for amazement how these Olympians would talk over our heads - during meals, for instance - of this or the other social or political inanity, under the delusion that these pale phantasms of reality were among the importances of life.

Translations

quality or condition of being important or worthy of note

• Arabic: أَهَمِّيَّة f (ʔahammiyya)
• Azerbaijani: əhəmiyyət (az)
• Bulgarian: ва́жност (bg) f (vážnost)
• Catalan: importància (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重要 (zh) (zhòngyào)

• Czech: důležitost (cs) f
• Danish: vigtighed c, betydning (da) c
• Dutch: belangrijkheid f, belang (nl) n
• Esperanto: graveco
• Finnish: tärkeys (fi), painoarvo (fi)
• French: importance (fr) f
• Galician: importancia (gl) f
• Georgian: მნიშვნელობა (mnišvneloba)
• German: Wichtigkeit (de) f, Belang (de) m
• Haitian Creole: enpòtans
• Hindi: अहमियत (ahmiyat)
• Hungarian: fontosság (hu)
• Icelandic: mikilvægi n
• Irish: tábhacht f
• Italian: importanza (it) f
• Japanese: 重要性 (ja) (jyūyōsei), 大切さ (taisetsusa)
• Khmer: សារៈសំខាន់ (km) (sarsaamkhan)
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• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Latin: momentum n
• Latvian: svarīgums m, nozimība f
• Macedonian: важност f (važnost)
• Maori: hiranga, mahurangi
• Occitan: importància (oc) f
• Persian: اهمیت (fa) (ahammiyyat)
• Polish: ważność (pl) f, doniosłość (pl) f
• Portuguese: importância (pt) f
• Romanian: importanță (ro) f, însemnătate (ro) f
• Russian: ва́жность (ru) (vážnostʹ), зна́чимость (ru) (znáčimostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: cudrom m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ва́жно̄ст f, зна̏ча̄ј m, зна́че̄ње n

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

• Spanish: importancia (es)
• Swahili: umuhimu (sw)
• Swedish: vikt (sv) c, betydelse (sv) c
• Tamil: முக்கியத்துவம் (ta) (mukkiyattuvam)
• Turkish: önem (tr), ehemmiyet (tr)
• Urdu: اہمیت
• Uzbek: ahamiyat (uz)
• Zulu: ukubaluleka class 15, ubukhulu class 14

significance or prominence

• Bulgarian: значе́ние (bg) n (značénie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 重要 (zh) (zhòngyào)

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

  Sorani:

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• Latvian: svarīgums m, nozimība f
• Maori: hiranga
• Persian: اهمیت (fa) (ahammiyyat)
• Portuguese: importância (pt) f
• Romanian: importanță (ro) f
• Scottish Gaelic: cudrom m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зна́че̄ње n, зна̏ча̄ј m, ва́жно̄ст f

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

• Swahili: umuhimu (sw)
• Swedish: vikt (sv) c

personal status or standing

• Japanese: 名声 (ja) (meisei)
• Latvian: svarīgums m
• Maori: mahurangi
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• Portuguese: status (pt) m
• Swahili: umuhimu (sw)
• Swedish: ställning (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} ప్రాముఖ్యత (te) (prāmukhyata)
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French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin importantia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.pɔʁ.tɑ̃s/

• Audio (l'importance)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

importance f (plural importances)

1. importance
2. significance

Related terms

• important

Further reading

• “importance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• comprenait