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Connotation vs Caudal - What's the difference?

connotation | caudal |

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)
  • 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 connotations of the phrase "you are a dog" are that you are physically unattractive or morally reprehensible, not that you are a canine.
  • 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 .
  • The two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" have different connotations but the same denotation (i.e. the planet Venus).

    Antonyms

    * denotation

    Synonyms

    * intension

    References

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    caudal

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (zoology) Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
  • * Darwin
  • the male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes
  • * 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 3:
  • Dassoud […] stepped forward with a lash composed of the caudal appendages of half a dozen wildebeests.

    Derived terms

    {{der3, caudally , caudal fin , caudal keel , caudal peduncle , precaudal , subcaudal , supracaudal}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A caudal vertebra.