[con.no.ta.tion] n (1532) 1 a: the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes b: something suggested by a word or thing: implication "the ~s of comfort that surrounded that old chair"
2: the signification of something "that abuse of logic which consists in moving counters about as if they were known entities with a fixed ~ --W. R. Inge"
3: an essential property or group of properties of a thing named by a term in logic--compare denotation -- con.no.ta.tion.al adj