Significance
[sɪg'nɪfɪk(ə)ns] or [sɪɡ'nɪfɪkəns]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being significant; 'do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power'.
(noun.) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred; 'the significance of his remark became clear only later'; 'the expectation was spread both by word and by implication'.
Inputed by Bobbie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Alt. of Significancy
Inputed by Byron
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Meaning, import, purport, sense.[2]. Importance, consequence, weight, moment.
Typed by Jared
Examples
- They possess significance only as movements toward something away from what is now going on. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The operator had worked so mechanically that he had handled the news without the slightest knowledge of its significance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was while I was in the carriage, just as we reached the trainer's house, that the immense significance of the curried mutton occurred to me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I did not understand then that there lay any special significance in his reference to other dainties. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- May's blush remained permanently vivid: it seemed to have a significance beyond that implied by the recognition of Madame Olenska's social bad faith. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Struck by the significance of his tone, Maurice looked keenly at him, and then turned to Crispin with a puzzled air. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This use of the word empire was evidently a different one from its former universal significance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Has EVERYTHING that happens a universal significance? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The use or significance of these Azilian pebbles is still a profound mystery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is not without significance that both Gilbert and Harvey had spent years in Italy, where, as we have implied, the experimental method of scientific research was early developed. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The stimulus to thinking is found when we wish to determine the significance of some act, performed or to be performed. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Her eye was arrested by what was a familiar sight enough, though it broke upon her now with a new significance. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Hence its unrivaled significance as a means of social direction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The significance of habit is not exhausted, however, in its executive and motor phase. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Typist: Mag