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significance
noun
1 significance
The quality of being significant.
2 significance
A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred:
— The significance of his remark became clear only later.
synonyms: implication, import.
Roget 642:
importance,
consequence,
moment,
prominence,
consideration,
mark,
materialness.
import,
significance,
concern;
emphasis,
interest.
greatness
etc.
31;
superiority
etc.
33;
notability
etc.
(repute)
873;
weight
etc.
(influence)
175;
value
etc.
(goodness)
648;
usefulness
etc.
644.
gravity,
seriousness,
solemnity;
no joke,
no laughing matter;
pressure,
urgency,
stress;
matter of life and death.
memorabilia,
notabilia†,
great doings;
red-letter day.
great thing,
great point;
main chance,
the be all and the end all"
[Macbeth];
cardinal point;
substance,
gist
etc.
(essence)
5;
sum and substance,
gravamen,
head and front;
important part,
principal part,
prominent part,
essential part;
half the battle;
sine qua non;
breath of one's nostrils
etc.
(life)
359;
cream,
salt,
core,
kernel,
heart,
nucleus;
keynote,
keystone;
corner stone;
trump card
etc.
(device)
626;
salient points.
top sawyer,
first fiddle,
prima donna [Sp.],
chief;
triton among the minnows;
'it' [U.S.]. "
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3 significance
The message that is intended or expressed or signified:
— The significance of a red traffic light.
synonyms: import, meaning, signification.
Roget 516:
meaning;
signification,
significance;
sense,
expression;
import,
purport;
force;
drift,
tenor,
spirit,
bearing,
coloring;
scope.
[important part of the meaning]
substance;
gist,
essence,
marrow,
spirit
etc.
5.
matter;
subject,
subject matter;
argument,
text,
sum and substance.
general meaning,
broad meaning,
substantial meaning,
colloquial meaning,
literal meaning,
plain meaning,
simple meaning,
natural meaning,
unstrained meaning,
true meaning,
etc.
(exact)
494
honest meaning,
etc.
543
prima facie meaning [Lat.];
etc.
(manifest)
525.
letter of the law.
literally;
after acceptation.
synonym;
implication,
allusion
etc.
(latency)
526;
suggestion
etc.
(information)
527;
figure of speech
etc.
521;
acceptation
etc.
(interpretation)
522.
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Dutch: bedoeling, betekenis, inhoud, significatie, zin
Moby thesaurus: accent, acceptation, affective meaning, authority, balefulness, banefulness, bearing, bodefulness, coloring, concern, concernment, connotation, consequence, consequentiality, consideration, conspicuousness, content, credit, denotation, direness, distinction, doomfulness, drift, effect, elevation, eminence, emphasis, essence, exaltation, excellence, expressiveness, extension, fatality, fatefulness, force, gist, grammatical meaning, grandeur, greatness, high mightiness, high order, high rank, idea, impact, implication, import, importance, impression, influence, intelligibility, intendment, intension, interest, interpretability, lexical meaning, literal meaning, loftiness, magnitude, mark, materiality, meaning, meaningfulness, meatiness, merit, message, moment, momentousness, nobility, notability, note, ominousness, outstandingness, overtone, paramountcy, perfection, pertinence, pith, pithiness, point, portent, portentousness, practical consequence, precedence, preeminence, pregnancy, presagefulness, prestige, primacy, priority, prominence, purport, range of meaning, readability, real meaning, reference, referent, relation, relevance, scope, self-importance, semantic cluster, semantic field, sense, sententiousness, significancy, significantness, signification, significatum, signifie, sinisterness, span of meaning, spirit, stress, structural meaning, sublimity, substance, suggestiveness, sum, sum and substance, supereminence, superiority, supremacy, symbolic meaning, tenor, totality of associations, transferred meaning, unadorned meaning, understanding, undertone, value, vein, virtue, weight, weightiness, worth ... show more.
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