significance

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  1. noun The state or quality of being significant. See Synonyms at importance.
  2. noun A meaning that is expressed.
  3. noun A covert or implied meaning. See Synonyms at meaning.

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  • David Sanger & William Broad continue to promote the "make-believe" view of American foreign policy, hiding anything of significance from the American people. —  Rastî
  • "The short-term significance is the perception that he's a different kind of leader," he said. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • When a president lies about those beliefs, then the significance is amplified. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Our results were not so dramatic, but they were produced under test conditions, and their significance is as great as that of Bottazzi's lamp-lighting But we did not have as much light on the medium, and, by-the-way, Miller, the spectral hands that I saw in your study, each larger than Mrs. Smiley's hands, were as real to me as those Scarpa studied, and the books deposited on your table form as good a record, in their way, as the marks on his smoked-glass cylinder Furthermore, we had writing," added Fowler. —  The Shadow World
  • There are, it may be said, two great schools which hold respectively the doctrines which may be not unfitly described as the significance and the insignificance, or rather, non-significance of ethics. —  Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles
 

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  1. from Old French significance, a later form, partly conformed to the L., of signifiance, segnifiance, senefiance (later Middle English signifiaunce, signefiance) =Provencal signifianza, significansa =Italian significanza, from Latin significantia, meaning, force, energy, significance, from significan (t-)s, meaning, significant: see significant.
 

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