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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. ... show more

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.    ... show more

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 ... show more.

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