connotation
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Connotation: implied feelings or thoughts associated with a word.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Connotation> The connotation of a word is the subtle implication, the emotional association it carries—often quite apart from its dictionary definition.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)
Under the general title of Immediate Inference Logicians discuss three subjects, namely, Opposition, Conversion, and Obversion; to which some writers add other forms, such as Whole and Part in Connotation, Contraposition, Inversion, etc.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth
The third step was made by Mill in extending the term Connotation to such words as "man," "horse," the Infimæ Species of the Schoolmen, the Species of modern science.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William
Connotation and Denotation are often said to vary inversely in quantity.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William
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