connotation

Because the term “involuntary treatment” has a negative connotation, they talk now of “compassionate care.”

"Regardless of whatever connotations you want to put towards the British royal family in the past, it's really a story about us moving forward as a nation."

The word has sexual connotations, too, meaning a man whose female partner is unfaithful.

That has connotations of gang violence and may give a misleading impression of the issues in Holly's case, Micala says.

And many people open to watching opera but also intimidated by the old-age magnificence of an opera house might be more comfortable starting their journey in a theater free of elitist connotations.