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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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For Reginfo, the top horizontal line with the curvilinear arrow bears the same connotation as one of the implications of the quartered circle.
But, given the creative skills and imagination of our tinsel town copywriters, the word takes a different connotation altogether.
Besides the religious connotation of the festival, it is seen as a time for revelry.
Thus the word carries a connotation of some physical use of the property by the tenant for the purposes of his business.
Economy in denotation and connotation can prohibit thought as well as promote it.
When our words lose the ability to convey an ethical connotation they become sterile and worthless.

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