'Signification' definitions:
Definition of 'signification'
(from WordNet)
noun
The message that is intended or expressed or signified; "what is the meaning of this sentence"; "the significance of a red traffic light"; "the signification of Chinese characters"; "the import of his announcement was ambiguous" [syn: meaning, significance, signification, import]
Definition of 'Signification'
From: GCIDE
- Signification \Sig`ni*fi*ca"tion\, n. [F. signification, L. significatio.]
- 1. The act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means. [1913 Webster]
- A signification of being pleased. --Landor. [1913 Webster]
- All speaking or signification of one's mind implies an act or addres of one man to another. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is signified or made known; that meaning which a sign, character, or token is intended to convey; as, the signification of words. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'signification'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acceptation,
- affective meaning,
- allocation,
- assignment,
- attribution,
- bearing,
- characterization,
- coloring,
- connotation,
- consequence,
- construction,
- denomination,
- denotation,
- designation,
- determination,
- differentiation,
- disclosure,
- drift,
- effect,
- essence,
- expression,
- extension,
- fingering,
- fixing,
- force,
- gist,
- grammatical meaning,
- hint,
- idea,
- identification,
- impact,
- implication,
- import,
- indication,
- indicativeness,
- intendment,
- intension,
- lexical meaning,
- literal meaning,
- magnitude,
- manifestation,
- meaning,
- message,
- moment,
- momentousness,
- naming,
- overtone,
- pertinence,
- picking out,
- pinning down,
- pith,
- point,
- pointing,
- pointing out,
- pointing to,
- practical consequence,
- precision,
- purport,
- range of meaning,
- real meaning,
- reference,
- referent,
- relation,
- relevance,
- scope,
- selection,
- semantic cluster,
- semantic field,
- sense,
- show,
- showing,
- significance,
- significancy,
- significatum,
- signifie,
- signifying,
- span of meaning,
- specification,
- spirit,
- stipulation,
- structural meaning,
- substance,
- suggestion,
- sum,
- sum and substance,
- symbolic meaning,
- symptomaticness,
- tenor,
- totality of associations,
- transferred meaning,
- unadorned meaning,
- understanding,
- undertone,
- value,
- weight,
- weightiness