English-Italian translations for connotation

• connotazione
  Il termine 'human rights? in inglese non ha alcuna specifica connotazione di genere, diversamente dal francese. The phrase "human rights" in English does not have a gender specific connotation in same way as in French.
  In altri, tuttavia - o almeno nei Paesi Bassi - il termine "costituzione” ha una connotazione diversa, un significato diverso. Elsewhere, however - in the Netherlands at any rate - the word 'constitution' has a totally different connotation or meaning still.
  Ho molto rispetto per la connotazione personale e spesso anche nazionale che ognuno di noi apporta a questi valori e principi. I have a great deal of respect for the personal and often national connotations that each of us brings to these values and principles.

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