connotation

Meaning

Noun

• A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
• The attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, contrasted with denotation.

Related

Similar words

• intension

Opposite words

• denotation

Origin

• Borrowed from Medieval Latin connotātiō, from connotō, from Latin con- + noto; equivalent to connote + -ation.