connotative

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Include only what was seen and heard, with no subjective interpretation or connotative language, and as few drawn conclusions as possible.

From Slate • Mar. 7, 2019

Litspam text, along with early comment spam and the strange spam blogs described in the next section, is the expression of an entirely different intentionality without the connotative structure produced by a human writer.

From Scientific American • Jun. 19, 2013

You might suggest a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but that forsakes the connotative power of language.

From The Guardian • Jul. 28, 2011

Vicki Hamer University of Northern Colorado Greeley, Colo Contrary to those people who decry the additional connotative meaning of words, I see the "loaded" quality in words as one of the great beauties of language.

From Time Magazine Archive

When we say, The town is built of marble, we give the hearer what may be entirely new information, and this merely by the signification of the many-worded connotative name, "built of marble."

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. I by Mill, John Stuart