significance
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3.8
- noun
- /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/
:
importancia
- Do you, uh, have any idea of the significance of that date?
- historical significance
- statistical significance
- great significance
I believe that has some significance for our problem.
- I believe that has some significance for our problem.
- I want them thinking right away about significance, about things that matter.
- You want to build anything of significance, you need to engage others.
- And their own cultural significance greatly diminished.
- I need to be driven by significance, by purpose, by mission, and by service.
- Seems like there's a discrepancy in our understanding of the significance of women and hormones.
- Don't don't overrate the significance of the unreal world.
- So the Jeep has significance in in that way.
- Place difference did not have the significance for them.
- It is even approaches the significance and scale and scope of the crime.
- So for, for one, seeking significance, well, that's useful.
- in Manhattan as cosmic significance, I don't know.
- And I feel a sense of significance and value.
- So there's no, there's no significance of the coordinates per SE.
Examples
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Some studies have a significance far beyond their size.
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Is there anything else of significance from that night?
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I believe that has some significance for our problem.
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And we'll come back to the significance of that later.
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So it has a political significance that we'll be turning to now.
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We need to ensure that a broad public understands the significance of the work that we do.
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Today we recognize the historical significance of what the Dalton gang did for our community.
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One is a set of interpretive panels that explain the significance of the site.
Academic text (2011) -
I never could've imagined making a discovery of this significance.
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The significance of her research was recognized internationally as groundbreaking.
Synonyms
∞
1.3
How much something is worth in money or how useful it is
∞
2.1
The main reason or purpose of something
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1.0
A quality that makes something have great value or effect
188
4.3
The main idea of something said or written
149
1.5
A quality that makes something valuable or useful
27
6.8
The meaning or importance of something
2
7.5
A quality that is easy to notice and more important than other things
1
7.9
Being very important and likely to have big effects
Antonyms
Compounds
How Important
Surface Forms
Morphology
significance = significant (transparent) = signific + ance
Derives from 'significant' with a standard noun-forming suffix; the 'importance' sense is a common, directly related sense of the adjective.
Etymology
Significance comes from Latin significare, with signum ('sign') plus a part meaning 'to make', the same root you see in signify and signal. That's why significance can mean how important something is: it is what the thing 'points' to or why it matters.