importance

English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Middle French importance, from Medieval Latin importantia.

Pronunciation edit

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɔːtəns/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɔɹtəns/, [-ʔn̩s]
Audio (US) (file)

Noun edit

importance (countable and uncountable, plural importances)

The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note.
significance or prominence.
personal status or standing.
Something of importance.
- 1895, Kenneth Graham, The Golden Age, London, page 5:
  It was incessant matter for amazement how these Olympians would talk over our heads - during meals, for instance - of this or the other social or political inanity, under the delusion that these pale phantasms of reality were among the importances of life.

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Translations edit

quality or condition of being important or worthy of note

Arabic: أَهَمِّيَّة f (ʔahammiyya)
Azerbaijani: əhəmiyyət (az)
Bashkir: әһәмиәт (əhəmiət)
Bulgarian: ва́жност (bg) f (vážnost)
Catalan: importància (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 重要 (zh) (zhòngyào)
Czech: důležitost (cs) f
Danish: vigtighed c, betydning (da) c
Dutch: belangrijkheid (nl) f, belang (nl) n
Esperanto: graveco
Finnish: tärkeys (fi), painoarvo (fi)
French: importance (fr) f
Galician: importancia (gl) f
Georgian: მნიშვნელობა (mnišvneloba)
German: Wichtigkeit (de) f, Belang (de) m
Haitian Creole: enpòtans
Hindi: अहमियत (ahmiyat)
Hungarian: fontosság (hu)
Icelandic: mikilvægi n
Irish: tábhacht f
Italian: importanza (it) f
Japanese: 重要性 (ja) (jyūyōsei), 大切さ (taisetsusa)
Khmer: សារៈសំខាន់ (km) (sarsaamkhan)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: گرنگی (ckb) (gringî)
Latin: momentum n
Latvian: svarīgums m, nozimība f
Macedonian: важност f (važnost)
Malayalam: പ്രാധാന്യം (prādhānyaṁ)
Maori: hiranga, mahurangi
Occitan: importància (oc) f
Persian: اهمیت (fa) (ahammiyyat)
Polish: ważność (pl) f, doniosłość (pl) f
Portuguese: importância (pt) f
Romanian: importanță (ro) f, însemnătate (ro) f
Russian: ва́жность (ru) (vážnostʹ), зна́чимость (ru) (znáčimostʹ)
Scottish Gaelic: cudrom m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ва́жно̄ст f, зна̏ча̄ј m, зна́че̄ње n

Roman: vážnōst (sh) f, znȁčāj (sh) m, znáčēnje (sh) n
Spanish: importancia (es)
Swahili: umuhimu (sw)
Swedish: vikt (sv) c, betydelse (sv) c
Tamil: முக்கியத்துவம் (ta) (mukkiyattuvam)
Tibetan: གལ་གནད (gal gnad), གཙིགས (gtsigs), འགངས ('gangs)
Turkish: önem (tr), ehemmiyet (tr)
Ukrainian: важли́вість (uk) f (važlývistʹ)
Urdu: اہمیت
Uzbek: ahamiyat (uz)
Yiddish: וויכטיקייט f (vikhtikeyt)
Zulu: ukubaluleka class 15, ubukhulu class 14

significance or prominence

Bulgarian: значе́ние (bg) n (značénie)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 重要 (zh) (zhòngyào)
Estonian: tähtsus
Finnish: tärkeys (fi)
German: Wichtigkeit (de) f
Greek: σημασία (el) f (simasía)
Irish: tábhacht f
Italian: importanza (it) f
Japanese: 重要性 (ja) (jyūyōsei), 大切さ (taisetsusa)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: گرنگی (ckb) (gringî)
Latvian: svarīgums m, nozimība f
Malayalam: പ്രാധാന്യം (prādhānyaṁ)
Maori: hiranga
Persian: اهمیت (fa) (ahammiyyat)
Portuguese: importância (pt) f
Romanian: importanță (ro) f
Scottish Gaelic: cudrom m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: зна́че̄ње n, зна̏ча̄ј m, ва́жно̄ст f

Roman: znáčēnje (sh) n, znȁčāj (sh) m, vážnōst (sh) f
Swahili: umuhimu (sw)
Swedish: vikt (sv) c
Tibetan: གལ་གནད (gal gnad), གཙིགས (gtsigs), འགངས ('gangs)
Yiddish: וויכטיקייט f (vikhtikeyt)

personal status or standing

Japanese: 名声 (ja) (meisei)
Latvian: svarīgums m
Maori: mahurangi
Portuguese: status (pt) m
Swahili: umuhimu (sw)
Swedish: ställning (sv) c
Tibetan: གོ་འཕང (go 'phang)

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