connotation
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English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Borrowed from Medieval Latin connotātiō , from connotō ("to mark in addition"), from Latin con- ("together, with") + notō ("to note"); equivalent to connote + -ation .
Pronunciation
[edit ]- (Received Pronunciation ) IPA (key): /ˌkɒnəˈteɪʃən/
- (General American , dialects of Canada) IPA (key): /ˌkɑnəˈteɪʃən/
- (Canada , dialects of the US) IPA (key): /ˌkɒnəˈteɪʃən/
- (Australian ) IPA (key): /ˌkɔnəˈtæɪʃən/
- (New Zealand ) IPA (key): /ˌkɒnəˈtæɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- Hyphenation: con‧no‧ta‧tion
Noun
[edit ]connotation (plural connotations )
- (semantics ) 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 word "advisedly" has a connotation of "wisely", although it denotes merely "intentionally" and "deliberately."
- The word "happy" has a positive connotation, while "sad" has a negative connotation.
- (logic ) The attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, 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).
Synonyms
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[edit ]Translations
[edit ]suggested or implied meaning
- Arabic: دَلَالَة (ar) f (dalāla)
- Armenian: հարանշանակություն (haranšanakutʻyun), լրացուցիչ իմաստ (lracʻucʻičʻ imast)
- Asturian: connotación f
- Bulgarian: конотация (bg) (konotacija), допълнително значение (dopǎlnitelno značenie)
- Catalan: connotació (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Czech: konotace f
- Danish: konnotation (da) c, medbetydning c, bibetydning c
- Dutch: connotatie (nl) f, bijbetekenis (nl) f, bijklank (nl) m, associatie (nl) f, gevoelswaarde (nl) f
- Esperanto: kromsignifo
- Finnish: konnotaatio (fi) , sivumerkitys , oheismerkitys
- French: connotation (fr) f
- Galician: connotación (gl) f
- German: Konnotation (de) , Nebenbedeutung (de) , Beiklang (de) , Beigeschmack (de)
- Greek: υποδήλωση (el) f (ypodílosi), συνεκδοχή (el) f (synekdochí)
- Hungarian: konnotáció (hu)
- Indonesian: konotasi (id)
- Irish: fochiall f
- Italian: connotazione (it) f
- Japanese: 含意 (ja) (がんい, gan'i)
- Kazakh: коннотация (konnotasiä)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 함축 (ko) (hamchuk)
- Lithuanian: konotacija f
- Malay: konotasi
- Maltese: konnotazzjoni f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: konnotasjon (no) m
- Nynorsk: konnotasjon m
- Occitan: connotacion (oc) f
- Polish: konotacja (pl) f, skojarzenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: conotação (pt) f
- Romanian: conotație (ro) f
- Russian: подте́кст (ru) m (podtékst), коннота́ция (ru) f (konnotácija), созначе́ние n (soznačénije)
- Serbo-Croatian: konotacija (sh) f
- Spanish: connotación (es) f
- Swedish: konnotation (sv) , bibetydelse (sv) c, innebörd (sv) c
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: tâlî mânâ , yan anlam
- Ukrainian: конота́ція (uk) f (konotácija)
- Vietnamese: hàm ý (vi)
See also
[edit ]Further reading
[edit ]- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), "connotation", in The Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
French
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin connotātiō , from connotō ("to mark in addition"). By surface analysis, connoter + -ation .
Pronunciation
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]connotation f (plural connotations )
- (semantics ) connotation
- Coordinate term: dénotation
Further reading
[edit ]- "connotation", in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
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