Synonym vs. Connotation
Synonymnoun
A word whose meaning is the same as that of another word.
Synonymnoun
A word or phrase with a meaning that is the same as, or very similar to, another word or phrase.
Synonymnoun
(zoology) Any of the formal names for a taxon, including the valid name (i.e. the senior synonym).
Synonymnoun
Any name for a taxon, usually a validly published, formally accepted one, but often also an unpublished name.
Synonymnoun
(databases) An alternative (often shorter) name defined for an object in a database.
Synonymnoun
One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be used interchangeably. See under Synonymous.
Synonymnoun
An incorrect or incorrectly applied scientific name, as a new name applied to a species or genus already properly named, or a specific name preoccupied by that of another species of the same genus; - so used in the system of nomenclature (which see) in which the correct scientific names of certain natural groups (usually genera, species, and subspecies) are regarded as determined by priority.
Synonymnoun
One of two or more words corresponding in meaning but of different languages; a heteronym.
Synonymnoun
two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context
Synonymnoun
a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language, for example shut is a synonym of close
Synonymnoun
a person or thing so closely associated with a particular quality or idea that the mention of their name calls it to mind
Synonymnoun
a taxonomic name which has the same application as another, especially one which has been superseded and is no longer valid.
Synonym
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in the same language. For example, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another; they are synonymous.
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.
