Definition of connotation
1 a
: something suggested by a word or thing : implication
- the connotations of comfort that surrounded that old chair
b
: the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes
2
: the signification of something
- … that abuse of logic which consists in moving counters about as if they were known entities with a fixed connotation.
- —William Ralph Inge
3
: an essential property or group of properties of a thing named by a term in logic — compare denotation
