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The message that is intended or expressed
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significance
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "meaning," from Old French significance or directly from Latin significantia "meaning, force, energy," from significans , present participle of significare "to mean, import, signify" (see signify ). The earlier word was signifiance (mid-13c.). Meaning ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Significance \Sig*nif"i*cance\, Significancy \Sig*nif"i*can*cy\, n. [L. significantia.] The quality or state of being significant. That which is signified; meaning; import; as, the significance of a nod, of a motion of the hand, or of a word or expression. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Significance is a stock issue in policy debate which establishes the importance of the harms in the status quo . As a stock issue has fallen out of favor with the debate community almost all debaters and judges now believe that any plan which is preferable ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES appreciate the significance/importance/value of sth ▪ He did not fully appreciate the significance of signing the contract. exaggerate the importance/significance (of sth) ▪ Personally, I think society exaggerates the ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The extent to which something matters; importance 2 meaning.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being significant; "do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power" [ant: insignificance ] a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred; "the significance of his remark became clear only later"; "the expectation was ...
Usage examples of significance.
Although when the child apperceives a stick as a horse, and the mechanic apperceives it as a lever, each interpretation is valuable within its own sphere, yet there is evidently a marked difference in the ultimate significance of the two interpretations.
For a brief interval following the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court appears to have underestimated the significance of this clause as a substantive restraint on the power of States to fix rates chargeable by an industry deemed appropriately subject to such controls.
The dogmatic assertors of a future life, in a partisan spirit set upon making out the most impressive case in its behalf, have been guilty of painting frightful caricatures of the true nature and significance of the opposite conclusion.
If however voice is not characteristically impact, but is simply air, two categories will be involved: voice is significant, and the one category will not be sufficient to account for this significance without associating with a second.
It would be impossible to imagine a bachelor astronaut, because half his significance would be missing.
January, no one understood the significance of Blas trying to protect a young girl from obscure dangers.
In Germany, owing to the peculiar conditions of the Empire, though the office of burgrave had become a sinecure by the end of the 13th century, the title, as borne by feudal nobles having the status of princes of the Empire, obtained a quasi-royal significance.
It was in her subconscious memory, available to our drug interrogation at the Macho station because she was not aware of its significance.
For a moment a pang of superstitious fear shot through Masson, and then rage replaced it as he realised the significance of the sound.
This matsuri, which, like an English fair, feast, or revel, has lost its original religious significance, goes on for three days and nights, and this was its third and greatest day.
While Cleggett was still wondering what significance could underlie this unusual form of matutinal exercise, Dr.
Let no one, while this System is still in its infancy, misconceive its character, belittle its significance or misrepresent its purpose.
But now the reviving nationalisms, the resuscitating social and commercial interests of the moribund old world system, were acutely aware of the immense significance of events at Basra, and there had gathered an assemblage of delegations, reporters, adventurers, friends and camp followers of every description, far exceeding the numbers of the actual Fellows.
But the point lies here,--that the scope of the knowledge of all mankind as a whole is so multifarious, ranging from the knowledge of how to extract iron to the knowledge of the movements of the planets, that man loses himself in this multitude of existing knowledge,--knowledge capable of ENDLESS possibilities, if he have no guiding thread, by the aid of which he can classify this knowledge, and arrange the branches according to the degrees of their significance and importance.
All other methods, such as revolutionary use of bourgeoisie parliamentarism, will be of only secondary significance.