English-Finnish translations for connotation

• konnotaatio
  Toisaalla - ainakin Alankomaissa - "perustuslaki"sanan konnotaatio ja jopa merkitys ovat täysin erilaiset. Elsewhere, however - in the Netherlands at any rate - the word 'constitution' has a totally different connotation or meaning still.
  Sanaan kesä voi liittyä konnotaatio ’lämmin, miellyttävä loma-aika’.

Definition of connotation

• 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
• The attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, contrasted with

Examples

• 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).

Related words

• connote
• connoted
• connotative
• connotatively