Definitions for denotation

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denotation de·no·ta·tion

Spelling: [dee-noh-tey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌdi noʊˈteɪ ʃən/

Denotation is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 360 anagrams from letters in denotation (adeinnoott).

Definitions for denotation

noun

1. the explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it; the association or set of associations that a word usually elicits for most speakers of a language, as distinguished from those elicited for any individual speaker because of personal experience.
2. a word that names or signifies something specific:
3. the act or fact of denoting; indication.
4. something that denotes; mark; symbol.
5. Logic. the class of particulars to which a term is applicable. that which is represented by a sign.

Origin of denotation

1525-35; Latin dēnotātiōn- (stem of dēnotātiō) a marking out, equivalent to dēnotāt(us) (past participle of dēnotāre; see denote) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for denotation

How little is the difference in denotation, how great the difference in suggestion!

The denotation of the tenses was effected by appropriate signs.

In denotation the genus includes the species; in connotation the species includes the genus.

Clearly, these equations are, like Hamilton's, concerned with denotation.

Connotation and denotation are often said to vary inversely in quantity.

For the denotation may be increased in a sense without affecting the connotation.

Explain and illustrate what is meant by the denotation and Connotation of a Term.

We ought, if possible, to define in consonance with the denotation.

The larger the connotation the smaller the denotation, and vice vers.

Thus a proper name or even an abstract term is said to have denotation.