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English noun: significance | |||
| 1. | significance (attribute) the quality of being significant | ||
| Samples | Do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | importance | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | consequence, historicalness, import, meaningfulness, moment | ||
| Attribute | important, insignificant, significant, unimportant | ||
| Antonyms | insignificance | ||
| 2. | significance (cognition) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | ||
| Samples | The significance of his remark became clear only later. The expectation was spread both by word and by implication. | ||
| Synonyms | implication, import | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | meaning, substance | ||
| 3. | significance (communication) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | ||
| Samples | What is the meaning of this sentence. The significance of a red traffic light. The signification of Chinese characters. The import of his announcement was ambiguous. | ||
| Synonyms | import, meaning, signification | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | content, message, subject matter, substance | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | burden, connotation, core, effect, essence, gist, grammatical meaning, intension, intent, lesson, lexical meaning, moral, nicety, nuance, overtone, point, purport, referent, refinement, sense, shade, signified, spirit, subtlety, symbolisation, symbolization | ||
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