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/səgnˈɪfɪkəns/ /sɪgnˈɪfɪkəns/ Listen

Significance

noun

The quality of being significant.

A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred. Synonyms: implication, import. "The expectation was spread both by word and by implication"

The message that is intended or expressed or signified. Synonyms: import, meaning, signification. "The significance of a red traffic light" , "The signification of Chinese characters" , "The import of his announcement was ambiguous"

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"Significance" Quotes from Famous Books

... most obvious sense, this new question of the Academy is commonplace, and fit at best to exercise a rhetorisian's skill. But the Academy, which must continue till the end in its ignorance of the revolutionary significance of its oracles, has drawn aside the curtain in its commentary. What, then, so profound has it discovered in this ...

— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon

... of the significance of this play, you must bring yourself to realize that it was not merely a play, but a kind of a play; it had a name—a "musical comedy"—the meaning of which every one understood. Hundreds of such plays were written and produced, and "dramatic critics" went to ...

— The Metropolis • Upton Sinclair

... over the whole assembly. I did so at once, piercing everybody with my eyes. One thing alone restrained me; it was that I did not dare to fix my eyes upon certain objects. I feared the fire and brilliant significance of my looks at that moment so appreciated by everybody: and the more I saw I attracted attention, the more anxious was I to wean curiosity by my discreetness. I cast, nevertheless, a glittering ...

— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre

... changing, and the changes are fraught with significance for America. Feudalism has passed; scholasticism has gone; politics, commerce, philosophy, religion, science, invention, music, art, and literature are rapidly altering. In England William and Mary pass away. Queen ...

— Pioneers of the Old South - A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings, Volume 5 In - The Chronicles Of America Series • Mary Johnston

... makes a great deal of difference in many ways, Sir," laughed Buckingham, and he glanced with a significance which I did not understand at the boy who was waiting near with a weary look on his ...

— Simon Dale • Anthony Hope

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