- 1言外之意、聯想意義（語言課上常和「外延／字面意思」相對，稱為「內涵」）
The connotation of a word is the extra idea or feeling it brings along, on top of its basic meaning. “” and “childish” can point to the same age, but one feels innocent and the other feels silly — that extra shadow is the connotation. “Home” means the place you live; it often also makes people think of warmth, family, and safety. Writers choose words for these shadows as much as for the plain dictionary sense. Though actually, the extra meaning is not a law: a word can feel warm in one group and cold in another, and it can change with time. In school you will meet the pair denotation (the plain meaning) and connotation (the extra meaning). People also stretch the word to the feeling around a colour, a brand, or a name, not only a word.
組成From Latin con- “together, with” + notō “to mark, to note,” plus -ation. Equivalent to connote + -ation: a marking-along-with.
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- connotethe verb this noun is built from
- connotativethe adjective for this extra layer of meaning
- denotethe contrasting verb for the plain meaning; both rest on Latin notō, “to mark”
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
connotationnoun/ˌkɒnəˈteɪʃən/
- 1
human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA 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 word "advisedly" has a connotation of "wisely", although it denotes merely "intentionally" and "deliberately."
- The word "happy" has a positive connotation, while "sad" has a negative connotation.
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human-scienceslogicmathematicsThe attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, contrasted with denotation.
- The two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" have different connotations but the same denotation (i.e. the planet Venus).
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