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Definition of Denotation
1. Noun. The act of indicating or pointing out by name.
2. Noun. The most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to. "The extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos"
Generic synonyms: Meaning, Substance
Derivative terms: Denote, Extensional, Refer, Refer, Referent
Definition of Denotation
1. n. The marking off or separation of anything.
Definition of Denotation
1. Noun. The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes ¹
2. Noun. (logic linguistics semiotics) The primary, literal, or explicit meaning of a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated. ¹
3. Noun. (philosophy logic) The intension and extension of a word ¹
4. Noun. (semantics) Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol ¹
5. Noun. (semiotics) The surface or literal meaning encoded to a signifier, and the definition most likely to appear in a dictionary ¹
6. Noun. (computer science) Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics ¹
7. Noun. (context: media-studies) A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Denotation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Denotation
Literary usage of Denotation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Composition for College Students by Joseph Morris Thomas, Frederick Alexander Manchester, Frank William Scott (1922)
"4- denotation and Connotation denotation.—Although the words denotation and ...
The denotation of a word is what it merely denotes, what it plainly ..."
2. The Essentials of Logic: Being Ten Lectures on Judgment and Inference by Bernard Bosanquet (1903)
"Ultimately, indeed, the denotation itself is an attribute, and so part of the
connotation. ... denotation and connotation are thus simply the particular, ..."
3. A Manual of Logic by James Welton (1896)
"Synonyms of Connotation and denotation. Both the Connotation and the denotation
of Terms have been spoken of in Logic under a great number of names. ..."
4. Logic, Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read (1909)
"And, on the other hand, we can only increase the denotation of a term, ...
However, we may increase the known denotation without decreasing the connotation, ..."
5. The Problem of Logic by William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein (1908)
"CONNOTATION AND denotation. DEFINITION and Division are the two fundamental
methods for developing or making explicit the meaning of a term. ..."
6. The Essentials of Logic by Roy Wood Sellars (1917)
"The Inverse Variation of Connotation and denotation. The wider or higher the
class, the fewer the attributes which the members of the class have in common. ..."
7. The Working Principles of Rhetoric Examined in Their Literary Relations and by John Franklin Genung (1900)
"CHOICE OF WORDS FOR denotation. WHAT is meant by the denotation of a word has
... To secure the proper denotation of words for one's purpose a variety of ..."
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