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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance |
| Synonyms: | concern, consequence, import, magnitude, relevance, significance, significancy, weight, weightiness |
| Main Entry: | rationalness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sense |
| Synonyms: | acceptation, advantage, bottom line, burden, core, definition, denotatiton, drift, gist, good, heart, implication, import, intendment, interpretation, logic, matter, meat and potatoes, meat*, message, name of the game, nature of the beast, nitty-gritty, nuance, nub, nuts and bolts, punch line, purport, purpose, rationale, rationality, reason, rhyme or reason, short, significance, significancy, signification, stuff*, substance, thrust, understanding, upshot, use, value, worth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | signification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | meaning |
| Synonyms: | acceptation, allusion, bearing, bottom line, connotation, content, context, definition, denotation, drift*, effect, essence, explanation, force, gist*, heart*, hint, implication, import, intent, interpretation, intimation, meat*, message, name of the game, nature of beast, nitty-gritty, nuance, nuts and bolts, pith, point, purport, sense, significance, significancy, spirit, stuff*, subject, subject matter, substance, suggestion, symbolization, tenor, thrust, understanding, upshot, use, value, worth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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