IMPLICATION

noun Date: 15th century 1. the act of implicating ; the state of being implicated, close connection, 2. the act of implying ; the state of being implied, b. a logical relation between two propositions that fails to hold only if the first is true and the second is false, a logical relationship between two propositions in which if the first is true the second is true, a statement exhibiting a relation of ~, something implied: as, suggestion , a possible significance , implicative adjective implicatively adverb implicativeness noun