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Definition of Significance
1. Noun. The quality of being significant. "Do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power"
Specialized synonyms: Historicalness, Meaningfulness, Consequence, Import, Moment
Attributes: Important, Significant, Insignificant, Unimportant
Antonyms: Insignificance
Derivative terms: Significant
2. Noun. A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred. "The expectation was spread both by word and by implication"
Generic synonyms: Meaning, Substance
Derivative terms: Implicate, Imply, Import, Significant
3. Noun. The message that is intended or expressed or signified. "The import of his announcement was ambiguous"
Generic synonyms: Content, Message, Subject Matter, Substance
Specialized synonyms: Lexical Meaning, Grammatical Meaning, Symbolisation, Symbolization, Sense, Signified, Connotation, Intension, Referent, Burden, Core, Effect, Essence, Gist, Intent, Purport, Spirit, Lesson, Moral, Nicety, Nuance, Refinement, Shade, Subtlety, Overtone, Point
Derivative terms: Import, Mean, Mean, Significant, Signify, Signify
Definition of Significance
1. n. The quality or state of being significant.
Definition of Significance
1. Noun. The extent to which something matters; importance ¹
2. Noun. Meaning. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Significance
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Significance
1. An analytical evaluation of the results of a comparative trial or survey. Data yielding a difference in outcome depending on treatment or environmental factors are considered statistically significant if various mathematical procedures indicate there is less than a one in twenty (five percent) chance that the same results would occur through random accident. (In statistical terms this is expressed as p<.05 -or, the p-value is less than0.05.) (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Significance
Literary usage of Significance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1907)
"Have these years any significance for moral and religious education ? If the
course of education for the highest life begins thus early, what form should it ..."
2. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1907)
"Have these years any significance for moral and religious education ? If the
course of education for the highest life begins thus early, what form should it ..."
3. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1905)
"Our conception of these practical consequences is for us the whole of our conception
of the object, so far as that conception has positive significance at ..."
4. The Varieties of religious experience: A Study in Human Nature; Being the by William James (1902)
"Our conception of these practical consequences is for us the whole of our conception
of the object, so far as that conception has positive significance at ..."
5. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey (1916)
"The latter increase efficiency; they do not develop significance. The final
educational importance of such occupations in play ..."
6. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey (1916)
"The latter increase efficiency; they do not develop significance. The final
educational importance of such occupations in play ..."
7. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"The significance of this observation is that it recognizes the intermittent
character of the ... Significance of scientific studies often indirect. ..."
8. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"That the author intended this number to be noticed and a symbolic significance
to he attached to it is nowhere stated. If such a symbolic principle is ..."
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