Dictionary Definition
significance
Noun
1 the quality of being significant; "do not
underestimate the significance of nuclear power" [ant: insignificance]
2 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" [syn: import, implication]
3 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 ambigtuous" [syn:
meaning, signification, import]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Etymology
From significantia.Noun
- the extent to which
something matters;
importance
- As a juror your opinion is of great significance for the outcome trial.
- meaning
See also
- Significance level (statistics).
- Statistical significance.
Translations
extent to which something matters
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 重要性 (zhòngyàoxìng)
- Dutch: betekenis
- Finnish: merkitys, tärkeys
- French: importance (1) signification (2)
- German: Bedeutung , Signifikanz (1)
- Hungarian: jelentőség
- Italian: significanza
- Japanese: 重要性 (jūyōsei)
- Korean: 중요성 (jung-yoseong)
- Portuguese: significação
- Russian: значение (značénije)
- Scottish Gaelic: brìgh , ciall , cudthrom
- Spanish: significado
- Swedish: betydelse
Extensive Definition
Significance can refer to:
- the extent to which something matters; importance
- meaning
- Regarding meaning of life, it may be similar to ultimate importance
- In semiotics, the meaning assigned to a sign.
- statistical significance, the probability that a result is not due to chance
- significant figures or significant digits, the precision of a numerical value
- significance (policy debate), a stock issue in policy debate.
significance in German: Signifikanz
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accent,
acceptation,
affective meaning, authority, balefulness, banefulness, bearing, bodefulness, coloring, concern, concernment, connotation, consequence, consequentiality,
consideration,
conspicuousness,
content, credit, denotation, direness, distinction, doomfulness, drift, effect, elevation, eminence, emphasis, essence, exaltation, excellence, expressiveness, extension, fatality, fatefulness, force, gist, grammatical meaning, grandeur, greatness, high mightiness,
high order, high rank, idea, impact, implication, import, importance, impression, influence, intelligibility,
intendment, intension, interest, interpretability,
lexical meaning, literal meaning, loftiness, magnitude, mark, materiality, meaning, meaningfulness, meatiness, merit, message, moment, momentousness, nobility, notability, note, ominousness, outstandingness,
overtone, paramountcy, perfection, pertinence, pith, pithiness, point, portent, portentousness, practical
consequence, precedence, preeminence, pregnancy, presagefulness, prestige, primacy, priority, prominence, purport, range of meaning,
readability, real
meaning, reference,
referent, relation, relevance, scope, self-importance, semantic
cluster, semantic field, sense, sententiousness,
significancy,
significantness,
signification,
significatum,
signifie, sinisterness, span of
meaning, spirit, stress, structural meaning,
sublimity, substance, suggestiveness, sum, sum and substance, supereminence, superiority, supremacy, symbolic meaning,
tenor, totality of
associations, transferred meaning, unadorned meaning, understanding, undertone, value, vein, virtue, weight, weightiness, worth