Associations to the word «Connotation»

Wiktionary

CONNOTATION, noun. 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.
CONNOTATION, noun. A technical term in logic used by J. S. Mill and later logicians to refer to the attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, and contrasted with denotation.

Dictionary definition

CONNOTATION, noun. What you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression.
CONNOTATION, noun. An idea that is implied or suggested.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King