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Connotative
Connotative meaning
that implies or suggests something else
Synonyms of Connotative
Example sentences (6)
A connotative meaning of a television would be that it is top-of-the-line. citation Apple's commercials used a black silhouette of a person that was the age of Apple's target market.
Following to Milton, English poetry from Pope to John Keats exhibited a steadily increasing attention to the connotative, the imaginative and poetic, value of words.
Millian theory John Stuart Mill distinguished between connotative and denotative meaning, and argued that proper names included no other semantic content to a proposition than identifying the referent of the name and were hence purely denotative.
The connotative meaning is the product's deep and hidden meaning.
The signified has two meanings known as denotative and connotative.
Today a direct reference theory is common, which holds that proper names refer to their referents without attributing any additional information, connotative or of sense, about them.