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Importance

The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance.

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Accent 76% connected

A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.

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Account 76% connected

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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Emphasis 76% connected

A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to im…

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Essentiality 76% connected

The quality of being essential; the essential part.

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Greatness 76% connected

The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc.

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Illustriousness 76% connected

The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.

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Magnitude 76% connected

Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness.

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Primacy 76% connected

The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc., hence, excellency; supremacy.

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Prominence 76% connected

Alt. of Prominency

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Significance 76% connected

Alt. of Significancy

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Urgency 76% connected

The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.

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Weight 76% connected

The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially wh…

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Weightiness 76% connected

The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.

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Standing 76% connected

of Stand

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Value 76% connected

The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; wor…

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Grand 74% connected

Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake.

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Grand 74% connected

Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake.

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Important 74% connected

Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

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Important 74% connected

Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

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Significant 74% connected

Fitted or designed to signify or make known somethingl having a meaning; standing as a sign or token; expressive or suggestive; as, a significant wor…

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Significant 74% connected

Fitted or designed to signify or make known somethingl having a meaning; standing as a sign or token; expressive or suggestive; as, a significant wor…

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Important 66% connected

Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

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Important 66% connected

Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

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Grandness 92% connected

Grandeur.

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