significance
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3.8
- noun
- /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/
:
significado
- What is the significance of that in human terms?
- meaning and significance
- define significance
It intends to convey the significance of the awards.
- It intends to convey the significance of the awards.
- How can we explore its significance for for Bronze Age people in new ways?
- You then receive the response, translate that into meaning and significance, and send back your response.
- I don't, you know, I don't often understand the significance of it.
- In the physical significance and what is the physical significance of a cross B dot C?
- The significance of saying let's go for it and how that plays out.
- One way of articulating what the significance of a Turing machine is, is that it, it's a machine emulator.
- That is, is part of the significance of human action.
- Both of these have no other significance than that of being a pure knowing.
- But it's also freeing because then nothing you do has any significance.
Examples
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I think that little story has considerable significance.
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Do you know the significance of your contribution to the Internet?
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I had no idea the significance he had to music as a whole.
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Then the significance of football just becomes so much greater.
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Later, he would learn to recognize the significance of what he could see.
Fiction book (1997) -
What is the significance of tonight's State of the Union?
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I don't need to explain the deep significance of those words.
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At the time, I didn't understand its significance, but now I do.
Fiction book (1997) -
Her enduring significance was secured the moment she swore the oath.
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Do you know the significance of your contribution to the Internet?
Synonyms
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1.0
The main idea someone wants to say in speech, writing, or art
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1.0
An idea a word or sign shows
308
4.3
A result or meaning suggested but not said
188
4.3
The main idea of something said or written
27
6.8
The meaning or importance of something
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6.3
A hidden important idea behind a story, picture, or action
2
7.7
The meaning that a word, sign, or symbol expresses
Compounds
How Clear
Surface Forms
Morphology
significance = significant (transparent) = signific + ance
Formed from the adjective 'significant' with a standard noun-forming suffix, giving the state or quality of being significant; the noun's meanings ('meaning' and 'importance') are conventional extensions of the adjective.
Etymology
Significance comes from the Latin word significare, which has signum ('sign' or 'mark') and a part that means 'to make', and it shares the same root as signify and signal. So significance is what a sign 'shows' — the meaning or message behind something.