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connoting

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verb

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The correct spelling is connoting. To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning. For example: "Racism often connotes an underlying fear or ignorance."

Usage Examples

Racism often connotes an underlying fear or ignorance.

Poverty connotes hunger.

Definition

verb

  1. 1.To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.
  2. 2.To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence.
  3. 3.To express without overt reference; to imply.
  4. 4.To require as a logical predicate to consequence.

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