What is another word for denotations?

Pronunciation: [dɪnə͡ʊtˈe͡ɪʃənz] (IPA)

Denotations are the literal or primary meanings of a word, while connotations refer to the associated or secondary meanings. Some synonyms for denotations include definitions, explanations, meanings, interpretations, and implications. The use of these words may vary depending on the context, but they all generally refer to the specific and direct meaning of a word. Other possible synonyms for denotations include references, indications, designations, representations, and symbols. It is important to understand the denotations of words in order to use them effectively in communication and avoid confusion or misinterpretation.

What are the hypernyms for Denotations?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Denotations

Good and Evil are mere denotations, devoid of any real significance.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller

Famous quotes with Denotations

  • Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?
    Sergei Eisenstein
  • Poetry, as nearly as I can understand it, is a statement in words about a human experience, whether the experience be real or hypothetical, major or minor; but it is a statement of a particular kind. Words are symbols for concepts, and the philosopher or scientist endeavors as far as may be to use them with reference to nothing save their conceptual content. Most words, however, connote feelings and perceptions, and the poet, like the writer of imaginative prose, endeavors to use them with reference not only to their denotations but to their connotations as well. Such writers endeavor to communicate not only concepts, arranged, presumably, either in rational order or in an order of apprehensible by the rational mind, but the feeling or emotion which the rational content ought properly to arouse.
    Yvor Winters

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