Connotation vs. Denotation
Connotationnoun
(semantics) A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
Connotationnoun
(logic) The attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, contrasted with denotation.
Connotationnoun
The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
Connotationnoun
a meaning implied but not explicitly denoted by some word or expression, which may be understood in addition to the explicit primary meaning.
Connotationnoun
the full set of necessary properties possessed by all the objects within the extension of a term; the intensional meaning of a term, which determines the objects to which the term applies; the intension of a term.
Connotationnoun
what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression
Connotationnoun
an idea that is implied or suggested
Connotation
A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal meaning, which is its denotation. A connotation is frequently described as either positive or negative, with regard to its pleasing or displeasing emotional connection.
Denotationnoun
The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes
Denotationnoun
The primary, surface, literal, or explicit meaning of signifier such as a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.
Denotationnoun
The intension and extension of a word
Denotationnoun
(semantics) Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol
Denotationnoun
(computer science) Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics
Denotationnoun
(media-studies) A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.
Denotationnoun
The marking off or separation of anything.
Denotationnoun
the act of indicating or pointing out by name
Denotationnoun
the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to;
Denotationnoun
the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests
Denotationnoun
the action of indicating or referring to something by means of a word, symbol, etc.
Denotationnoun
the object or concept to which a term refers, or the set of objects of which a predicate is true.
Denotation
Denotation is a translation of a sign to its meaning, precisely to its literal meaning, more or less like dictionaries try to define it. Denotation is sometimes contrasted to connotation, which includes associated meanings.
