significance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sig=nif=i=cance

CIDE DICTIONARY

significance, n. [L. significantia.].

•  The quality or state of being significant.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is signified; meaning; import; as, the significance of a nod, of a motion of the hand, or of a word or expression.  [1913 Webster]
•  Importance; moment; weight; consequence.  [1913 Webster]

  "With this brain I must work, in order to give significancy and value to the few facts which I possess."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

significance, n.
1 importance; noteworthiness (his opinion is of no significance).
2 a concealed or real meaning (what is the significance of his statement?).
3 the state of being significant.
4 Statistics the extent to which a result deviates from a hypothesis such that the difference is due to more than errors in sampling.

Etymology

OF significance or L significantia (as SIGNIFY)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

significance

Importance

N importance, consequence, moment, prominence, consideration, mark, materialness, import, significance, concern, emphasis, interest, greatness, superiority, notability, weight, value, usefulness, gravity, seriousness, solemnity, no joke, no laughing matter, pressure, urgency, stress, matter of life and death, memorabilia, notabilia, great doings, red-letter day, great thing, great point, main chance, the be all and the end all, cardinal point, substance, gist, sum and substance, gravamen, head and front, important part, principal part, prominent part, essential part, half the battle, sine qua non, breath of one's nostrils, cream, salt, core, kernel, heart, nucleus, keynote, keystone, corner stone, trump card, salient points, top sawyer, first fiddle, prima donna, chief, triton among the minnows, 'it', important, of importance, momentous, material, to the point, not to be overlooked, not to be despised, not to be sneezed at, egregious, weighty, of note, notable, prominent, salient, signal, memorable, remarkable, unforgettable, worthy of remark, worthy of notice, never to be forgotten, stirring, eventful, grave, serious, earnest, noble, grand, solemn, impressive, commanding, imposing, urgent, pressing, critical, instant, paramount, essential, vital, all-absorbing, radical, cardinal, chief, main, prime, primary, principal, leading, capital, foremost, overruling, of vital importance in the front rank, first-rate, superior, considerable, marked, rare, significant, telling, trenchant, emphatic, pregnant, tanti, materially, in the main, above all, kat' exochin, par excellence, to crown all, to beat all, expende Hannibalem!.

Meaning

N meaning, signification, significance, sense, expression, import, purport, force, drift, tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring, scope, substance, gist, essence, marrow, spirit, matter, subject, subject matter, argument, text, sum and substance, general meaning, broad meaning, substantial meaning, colloquial meaning, literal meaning, plain meaning, simple meaning, natural meaning, unstrained meaning, true meaning, honest meaning, &c 543 prima facie meaning, letter of the law, literally, after acceptation, synonym, implication, allusion, suggestion, figure of speech, acceptation, meaning, expressive, suggestive, allusive, significant, significative, significatory, pithy, full of meaning, pregnant with meaning, declaratory, intelligible, literal, synonymous, tantamount, implied, explicit, to that effect, that is to say.