A connotation is a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries, in addition to its explicit or literal...
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Blues Connotation is an album by American blues guitarist Robben Ford. The album A Song I thought I heard Buddy Sing contains material from the same sessions...
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distinct meanings in logic, philosophy, and common usage. See connotation. In semiotics, connotation arises when the denotative relationship between a signifier...
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Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate is a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal that was established in 1991 covering the field of English...
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Connotations is a classical music composition for symphony orchestra written by American composer Aaron Copland. Commissioned by Leonard Bernstein in 1962...
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The following is a list of terms used in relation to age with negative connotations. Many age-negative terms intersect with ableism, or are derogatory toward...
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Sexism (redirect from Sexist connotations)
Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on one's sex or gender. Sexism can affect anyone, but primarily affects women and girls. It has been linked...
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Definition of anarchism and libertarianism (redirect from Connotations of anarchism)
anarchists use "libertarian socialist" to avoid anarchism's negative connotations and emphasize its connections with socialism. Anarchism retains a historical...
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List of age-related terms with negative connotations List of disability-related terms with negative connotations Category:Sex- and gender-related slurs...
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describe disabilities or people with disabilities, which may carry negative connotations or be offensive to people with or without disabilities. Some people consider...
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'unmanly', or 'lame'). The extent to which these usages still retain connotations of homosexuality has been debated and harshly criticized.[needs update]...
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and Russian influence. Such questions were affected by the positive connotations associated with the term Europe by its users. Such cultural considerations...
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Word or phrase Pronunciation Origin Source Word Definition and Connotation baw [bɒ] or sometimes [bɔ] English boy Similar in meaning to bloke in UK English...
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that possibly originated during the 1600s, but gained its current LGBT connotation in the 1970s from ball culture. Originally having a meaning similar to...
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émigré (French: [emigʁe]) is a person who has emigrated, often with a connotation of political or social exile or self-exile. The word is the past participle...
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Serbo-Croatian (section Political connotations)
Serbo-Croatian (/ˌsɜːrboʊkroʊˈeɪʃən/ SUR-boh-kroh-AY-shən) – also called Serbo-Croat (/ˌsɜːrboʊˈkroʊæt/ SUR-boh-KROH-at), Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), B...
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The Hollywood Reporter, the term miniseries has grown to have negative connotations within the industry, having become associated with melodrama-heavy works...
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Semiotics of photography (section Connotation)
is what the image is or represents. The literal meaning of the image. Connotation (Semiotics) is arbitrary in that the meanings brought to the image are...
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used in casual speech without any intention of causing offense. The connotation of a term and prevalence of its use as a pejorative or neutral descriptor...
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access data which would otherwise be inaccessible to them. In a positive connotation, though, hacking can also be utilized by legitimate figures in legal...
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The Shocker is a hand gesture with a sexual connotation. The index, middle, and little fingers are extended, while the ring finger is curled or bent down...
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Ayatollah (section Political connotations)
Ayatollah (UK: /ˌaɪəˈtɒlə/ or US: /ˌaɪəˈtoʊlə/; Arabic: اية الله, romanized: ʾāyatu llāh; Persian: آیتالله, romanized: âyatollâh, Persian pronunciation:...
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depending on the context and the law, and it often carries a pejorative connotation. Criminals are often seen as embodying certain stereotypes or traits...
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loanwords from Latin and Latinized Greek. These words often have different connotations from their Germanic counterparts and are usually perceived as more scholarly...
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permits the use of "−00" with the same denotation as "+00" but a differing connotation: an unknown UTC offset. To represent a negative offset, ISO 8601 specifies...
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needed] In Mount Lebanon, the title had the same princely and royal connotation as in the Arabian peninsula until the Ottoman invasion in 1516, since...
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temperature. Denotation is contrasted with other aspects of meaning including connotation. For instance, the word "warm" may evoke calmness, coziness, or kindness...
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emotive connotations of these words are different. Firm carries a positive connotation, obstinate carries a neutral (or slightly negative) connotation, and...
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an obsession with details. Micromanagement generally has a negative connotation, suggesting a lack of freedom and trust in the workplace, and an excessive...
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named after the Nguni philosophy of ubuntu, "humanity to others" with a connotation of "I am what I am because of who we all are". Since the release of the...
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