 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Significance \Sig*nif"i*cance\, Significancy \Sig*nif"i*can*cy\,
n. [L. significantia.]
1. The quality or state of being significant.
2. That which is signified; meaning; import; as, the
significance of a nod, of a motion of the hand, or of a
word or expression.
3. Importance; moment; weight; consequence.
With this brain I must work, in order to give
significancy and value to the few facts which I
possess. --De Quincey.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
135 Moby Thesaurus words for "significance":
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
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