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Definition of Connotation

Connotation

  1. The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.

Connotation Quotations

I think the word 'earnest' kind of has a negative connotation on some level. I think one of the things that's happened is that being cynical is somehow conflated with being sophisticated. I think that's problematic, to say the least.
Josh Radnor

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.
Marilyn Hacker

The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.
Edward Sapir

Diva has a negative connotation.
Glenn Close

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.
Michael Scheuer
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Connotation Translations

connotation in German is Nebenbedeutung
connotation in Swedish is speciell betydelse, bibetydelse

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