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Definition of Importance
1. Noun. The quality of being important and worthy of note. "The importance of a well-balanced diet"
Specialized synonyms: Big Deal, Magnitude, Account, Momentousness, Prominence, Greatness, Illustriousness, Significance, Essentiality, Essentialness, Urgency, Weight, Weightiness
Attributes: Important, Of Import, Unimportant
Derivative terms: Important, Important, Important
Antonyms: Unimportance
2. Noun. A prominent status. "A person of importance"
Generic synonyms: Standing
Specialized synonyms: Accent, Emphasis, Primacy
Derivative terms: Important, Important
Definition of Importance
1. n. The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance.
Definition of Importance
1. Noun. The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note ¹
2. Noun. significance or prominence ¹
3. Noun. personal status or standing ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Importance
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Importance
Literary usage of Importance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905), North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1894)
"importance OF EARLY ACTION. constantly increasing. This land is covered only with
a low, scrubby growth of sand black-jack oaks and in places has mixed with ..."
2. The Montessori method: Scientific Pedagogy as Applied to Child Education in by Maria Montessori (1912)
"The " Children's House " has a twofold importance : the social importance which
it assumes through its peculiarity of being a school within the house, ..."
3. The History of Creation, Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester, L. Dora Schmitz (1892)
"Its Special importance to the History of the Natural Development of the Human Race.
... The Absolute importance of the Theory of Descent to the Monistic ..."
4. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1882)
"... Organs of small importance — Organs not in all cases absolutely perfect — The
law of ... on the one hand, an organ of trifling importance, ..."
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