CONNOTATION


Meaning of CONNOTATION in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌkä-nə-ˈtā-shən ]

noun

Date: 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 connotation 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 connotation — 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 -shnəl, -shə-n ə l adjective

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.