Connotation vs Denomination - What's the difference?
connotation | denomination |
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 .
(uncountable) The act of naming]] or [[designate, designating.
(countable) That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons.
(countable) A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect or religious sub-goup; as, a religious denomination.
(countable) A unit in a series of units of weight, money, etc
:: What denomination is that money? They are all 50 euro notes.
As nouns the difference between connotation and denomination
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 denomination is denomination (all senses).connotation
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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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denomination
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(wikipedia denomination)Noun
- She follows the Ahmadiyya denomination of Islam.