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English

w:connotation

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin con- (“together, with”) + noto (“I note”); equivalent to connote +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑnəˈteɪʃən/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒnəˈteɪʃən/
Audio ( (file)
Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Hyphenation: con‧no‧ta‧tion

Noun

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

intension

Antonyms

denotation

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

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:
Mandarin: 含義 / 含义 (zh) (hányì)
Czech: konotace f
Danish: konnotation (da) c, medbetydning c, bibetydning c
Dutch: connotatie (nl) f, gevoelswaarde (nl) f
Esperanto: kromsignifo
Finnish: konnotaatio (fi), sivumerkitys, oheismerkitys
French: connotation (fr) f
Galician: connotación (gl) f
German: Konnotation (de)
Greek: υποδήλωση (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)
Malay: konotasi
Maltese: konnotazzjoni f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: konnotasjon (no) m

Nynorsk: konnotasjon m
Occitan: connotacion (oc) f
Polish: konotacja f, skojarzenie (pl) n
Portuguese: conotação (pt) f
Romanian: conotație (ro) f
Russian: подте́кст (ru) f (konnotácija), созначе́ние n (soznačénije)
Serbo-Croatian: konotacija (sh) f
Spanish: connotación (es) f
Swedish: konnotation (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

subtext

Further reading

Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

French

w:connotation

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin con- (“together, with”) + notō (“to note”). By surface analysis, connoter +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɔ.nɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/
Audio: (file)

Noun

connotation f (plural connotations)

connotation

Further reading

“Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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