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Signification

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

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Burden 76% connected

That which is borne or carried; a load.

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Connotation 76% connected

The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.

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Core 76% connected

A body of individuals; an assemblage.

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Effect 76% connected

Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

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Essence 76% connected

The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.

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Gist 76% connected

A resting place.

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Intension 76% connected

A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained; as, the intension of a musical string.

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Intent 76% connected

Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement.

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Lesson 76% connected

Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one t…

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Moral 76% connected

Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules…

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Nicety 76% connected

The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.).

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Nuance 76% connected

A shade of difference; a delicate gradation.

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Overtone 76% connected

One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air wh…

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Purport 76% connected

Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.

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Refinement 76% connected

The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas.

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Sense 76% connected

A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the bod…

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Shade 76% connected

Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between th…

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Signified 76% connected

of Signify

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Spirit 76% connected

Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.

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Subtlety 76% connected

The quality or state of being subtle, or sly; cunning; craftiness; artfulness.

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Symbolization 76% connected

The act of symbolizing; symbolical representation.

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Content 76% connected

Contained within limits; hence, having the desires limited by that which one has; not disposed to repine or grumble; satisfied; contented; at rest.

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Message 76% connected

Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another.

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Substance 76% connected

That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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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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Signify 74% connected

To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to exp…

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Signify 74% connected

To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to exp…

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Synonym 3

Import 92% connected

To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country from a foreign country, in th…

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Meaning 92% connected

of Mean

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Significance 92% connected

Alt. of Significancy

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