Connotation vs Caudal - What's the difference?
connotation | caudal |
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.
A technical term in logic used by J. S. Mill and later logicians to refer to the attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, and contrasted with denotation .
(zoology) Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
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* 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 3:
As nouns the difference between connotation and caudal
is that connotation is 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 while caudal is a caudal vertebra.As an adjective caudal is
(zoology) pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.connotation
English
Noun
(en noun)- The connotations of the phrase "you are a dog" are that you are physically unattractive or morally reprehensible, not that you are a canine.
- The two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" have different connotations but the same denotation (i.e. the planet Venus).
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caudal
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Adjective
(-)- the male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes
- Dassoud […] stepped forward with a lash composed of the caudal appendages of half a dozen wildebeests.