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connotation

[kon-uh-tey-shuhn] / ˌkɒn əˈteɪ ʃən /


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Connotation: implied feelings or thoughts associated with a word.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

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

An adjective with its noun is a general name, of which the adjective gives part of the Connotation.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

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)

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




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