connotation

Borrowed from Medieval Latin connotātiō, from connotō (“I mark in addition”), from Latin con- (“together, with”) + noto (“I note”); equivalent to connote +‎ -ation.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑnəˈteɪʃən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒnəˈteɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: con‧no‧ta‧tion

connotation (plural connotations)

1. (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.

2. (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).

• intension

• denotation

• connotate
• connotative
• connote

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “connotation”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Borrowed from Medieval Latin connotātiōnem, from connotō (“to mark in addition”), from Latin con- (“together, with”) + notō (“to note”). By surface analysis, connoter +‎ -ation.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.nɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/

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connotation f (plural connotations)

1. connotation

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