Connotation
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Illustration: a close-up of a mouth in the film The Big Swallow (1901)
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A subjective cultural and/or emotional coloration in addition to the explicit or denotative meaning of any specific word or phrase in a language, i.e. emotional association with a word.
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See also
- Denotation
- Double entendre
- Extension
- Extensional definition
- Gloss
- Intension
- Intensional definition
- Metacommunicative competence
- Pun
- Subtext
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