What is the difference between connotatively and connotation?
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In a way that connotes.
* 1878 , Shadworth Hollway Hodgson, The philosophy of reflection , volume 1, page 9:
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 .
Connotatively is a related term of connotation.
As a adverb connotatively
is in a way that connotes.As a noun 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.connotatively
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- We use words either denotatively or connotatively'; denotatively when a word is used as a mere mark or sign to point out which thing of all possible things we mean to speak of, and ' connotatively when it is used to point out a supposed characteristic of the thing denoted.
See also
* denotativelyconnotation
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).
