Significance vs Meaningful - What's the difference?
significance | meaningful |
The extent to which something matters; importance
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Meaning.
Having meaning, significant.
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, year=2012
, date=June 9
, author=Owen Phillips
, title=Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark
, work=BBC Sport
As a noun significance
is the extent to which something matters; importance.As an adjective meaningful is
having meaning, significant.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.meaningful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I think we made a meaningful contribution to this project today.
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