Intensify vs Connotation - What's the difference?
intensify | connotation |
To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.
To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
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 a verb intensify
is to render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.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.intensify
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(en-verb)connotation
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(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).