Hawklike vs Connotation - What's the difference?
hawklike | connotation |
Reminiscent of a hawk.
* 1986 , Linda Ben-Zvi, Samuel Beckett
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 .
As an adjective hawklike
is reminiscent of a hawk.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.hawklike
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- However, in filming this scene proved too difficult to do, and instead the film opens with a close-up of Keaton's hawklike eye.
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).