Import
Of substance. May also be referred to as meaning, significance and signification.
The message that is intended or expressed or signified; "what is the meaning of this sentence"; "the significance of a red traffic light"; "the signification of Chinese characters"; "the import of his announcement was ambiguous".
This concept's ID is @1~35151
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- point
A brief version of the essential meaning of something; "get to the point"; "he missed the...
- referent
Something referred to; the object of a reference.
- sense
The meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can...
- spirit
The intended meaning of a communication.
- lesson
The significance of a story or event; "the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor".
- shade
A subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude; "without understanding the finer nuances...
- overtone
(usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality; "overtones of despair".
- lexical meaning
The meaning of a content word that depends on the nonlinguistic concepts it is used...
- grammatical meaning
The meaning of a word that depends on its role in a sentence; varies with inflectional...
- symbolization
The use of symbols to convey meaning.
- connotation
What you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression.
- core
The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work.