Stigma vs Connotation - What's the difference?
stigma | connotation |
A mark of infamy or disgrace.
A scar or birthmark.
(botany) The sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination.
a ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau, ().
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 nouns the difference between stigma and connotation
is that stigma is stigma (mark of infamy) while 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.stigma
English
(wikipedia stigma)Alternative forms
* (l) (Anglicised long stem) * (l) (Anglicised short stem, obsolete, rare)Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* stigmatizeExternal links
* *Anagrams
* English nouns with irregular plurals ----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).