Significance vs Meaning - What's the difference?
significance | meaning |
The extent to which something matters; importance
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Meaning.
The symbolic value of something.
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*:Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ ("I never) understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
The significance of a thing.
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(lb) The objects or concept that a word or phrase denotes, or that which a sentence says.
(lb) Intention.
*(rfdate) (Sir Walter Raleigh):
*:It was their meaning to take what they needed by stronghand.
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, title= Having a (specified) intention.
Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful.
*1839 , (Edgar Allan Poe), ‘William Wilson’:
*:I might, to-day, have been a better, and thus a happier man, had I less frequently rejected the counsels embodied in those meaning whispers which I then but too cordially hated and too bitterly despised.
Meaning is a synonym of significance.
As nouns the difference between significance and meaning
is that significance is the extent to which something matters; importance while meaning is the symbolic value of something.As a verb meaning is
present participle of lang=en.As an adjective meaning is
having a (specified) intention.significance
English
(wikipedia significance)Noun
(en noun)- As a juror your opinion is of great significance for the outcome of the trial.
- Of more significance in the nature of branch development; in the Jubulaceae, as in the Porellaceae, branches are acroscopic and normally replace a ventral leaf lobe.
- the significance of a gesture
See also
* Significance level (statistics). * Statistical significance.meaning
English
(wikipedia meaning)Etymology 1
From (etyl) mening, menyng, equivalent to .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* sense, definitionHyponyms
* propositionDerived terms
* antimeaning * meaning of life * meaningful * meaningless * meaninglessly * meaninglessnessEtymology 2
From .Verb
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