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What is a connotation?

What is a connotation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (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.
  2. (logic) 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.
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But, given the creative skills and imagination of our tinsel town copywriters, the word takes a different connotation altogether.
Economy in denotation and connotation can prohibit thought as well as promote it.
One connotation of the term is that the imbalance must be really serious or exceptional.
Thus the word carries a connotation of some physical use of the property by the tenant for the purposes of his business.
Ostensibly neutral, each of these words has a positive connotation in the American political lexicon.
I use the word in its connotation of an unimpaired or uncorrupted state of affairs.

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