signification

Noun

Meaning

The act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means.

That which is signified or made known; that meaning which a sign, character, or token is intended to convey; as, the signification of words.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

meaning significance import point force value effect idea matter sense definition mean importance sign message
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Antonyms

indication ignorance misconception stupidity foolishness insignificance
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Hypernyms

content message substance

Hyponyms

point effect sense overtone core moral

Examples

Literary texts do not exist on bookshelves: they are processes of signification materialized only in the practice of reading. For literature to happen, the reader is quite as vital as the author. Terry Eagleton

Since sounds have no natural connection with our ideas ... the doubtfulness and uncertainty of their signification ... has its cause more in the ideas they stand for than in any incapacity there is in one sound more than another to signify any idea. John Locke

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. Robert Smithson

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification. Albert Camus

MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language. Ambrose Bierce

In these last sentences I have intentionally used words of wide signification - have spoken of guidance along ordered paths. It is wisdom to be vague here, for we absolutely can not say whether or when any diversion may be introduced into the existing system of earthly forces by an external power. William Crookes

Close letter words and terms

significantly varying significantness significate significative significatively significativeness