Significant vs Nonsignificant - What's the difference?
significant | nonsignificant |
Signifying something; carrying meaning.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
Having a covert or hidden meaning.
Having a noticeable or major effect; notable.
Reasonably large in number or amount.
(statistics) Having a low probability of occurring by chance (for example, having high correlation and thus likely to be related).
That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.
* Shakespeare
(sciences) Lacking statistical significance
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 30, author=Michael L. Anstey et al., title=Serotonin Mediates Behavioral Gregarization Underlying Swarm Formation in Desert Locusts, work=Science
, passage=Locusts that received an injection of 5-HTP but were not crowded also showed a similar but also nonsignificant increase in Pgreg (median 0.38; P = 0.448), which indicates that this treatment was also insufficient to induce full behavioral gregarization. }}
As adjectives the difference between significant and nonsignificant
is that significant is signifying something; carrying meaning while nonsignificant is (sciences) lacking statistical significance.As a noun significant
is that which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol.significant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a significant''' word or sound; a '''significant look
- It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant , but not efficient.
- That was a significant step in the right direction.
- The First World War was a significant event.
Synonyms
* importantAntonyms
* insignificant * ignorable * negligible * slightNoun
(en noun)- (Wordsworth)
- In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts.
nonsignificant
English
Adjective
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