Etymology
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Inherited from Middle English significaunce, from Middle French significance, from Old French significance, from Latin significantia. Doublet of signifiance.
Pronunciation
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significance (countable and uncountable, plural significances)
- The extent to which something matters; importance
- As a juror your opinion is of great significance for the outcome of the trial.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 5:Of more significance in the nature of branch development; in the Jubulaceae, as in the Porellaceae, branches are acroscopic and normally replace a ventral leaf lobe.
- Meaning.
- the significance of a gesture
Derived terms
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Translations
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extent to which something matters
- Arabic: مَعْنَى (ar) (maʕnā)
- Armenian: նշանակություն (hy) (nšanakutʻyun)
- Bashkir: әһәмиәт (əhəmiət)
- Bulgarian: значение (bg) n (značenie)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 重要性 (zh) (zhòngyàoxìng)
- Czech: význam (cs) m
- Danish: betydning (da)
- Dutch: betekenis (nl), belang (nl) f, importantie (nl) f
- Finnish: merkitys (fi), tärkeys (fi)
- French: importance (fr) f (1), signification (fr) f (2)
- Galician: significación (gl) f
- German: Bedeutung (de) f, Signifikanz (de) f (1)
- Hungarian: jelentőség (hu), fontosság (hu)
- Irish: tábhacht f
- Italian: significanza (it) f, significatività (it), importanza (it)
- Japanese: 重要性 (ja) (jūyōsei)
- Khmer: សារៈសំខាន់ (sarsaamkhan)
- Korean: 중요성 (ko) (jung'yoseong)
- Macedonian: зна́чење n (znáčenje), ва́жност f (vážnost)
- Malayalam: പ്രാധാന്യം (prādhānyaṁ)
- Portuguese: significância (pt) f
- Romanian: semnificanță m or n, importanță (ro) f, semnificativitate f
- Russian: значе́ние (ru) n (značénije)
- Scottish Gaelic: brìgh f, ciall f, cudthrom m
- Serbo-Croatian: znáčēnje (sh) n, znȁčāj (sh) m, vážnōst (sh) f
- Spanish: significado (es) m, significación (es), calado (es), importancia (es) f
- Swedish: betydelse (sv), vikt (sv) c, signifikans (sv) c
- Thai: ความสำคัญ (th) (kwaam-sǎm-kan)
- Turkish: önem (tr)
- Welsh: pwysigrwydd (cy)
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Middle English
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