significance
UK/sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/
significance noun: the extent to which something matters; importance.
Noun
significance (countable and uncountable, plural significances)
- The extent to which something matters; importance
- As a juror your opinion is of great significance for the outcome of the trial.
- As the nudities and mythologies of the sixteenth century lost something of their vogue, the draperies acquired greater significance in the general effect; and the impression of agitation was accentuated by exaggerated flutters of wide-flung expanses of carved stuffs.1924, George Henry Chase, Chandler Rathfon Post, A History of Sculpture, page 372
- Meaning.
- the significance of her gesture was unclear
significance meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
significance in Tamil
- meaning
- பொருள் poruḷ, அர்த்தம் arttam
significance in Urdu
- معنی
significance in Bengali
- তাত্পর্য, অর্থ, অর্থপূর্ণতা, মানে, গুরূত্ব, মর্মার্থ
significance in Malayalam
- extent to which something matters
- പ്രാധാന്യം prādhānyaṁ
More languagesFewer languages
- significance in Kannada
- ಹುರುಳು, ಹೆಚ್ಚುಗಾರಿಕೆ, ಮಹತ್ವ, ಪ್ರಾಧಾನ್ಯ
- significance in Arabic
- مَعْنَى maʕnā
- significance in Thai
- ความสำคัญ kwaam-sǎm-kan, ความหมาย kwaam-mǎai
- significance in Vietnamese
- ý nghĩa
Examples of significance in a sentence
- The clothing and unclothing of the idols was of special significance.
- We used the number of cites as a rough measure of the significance of each published paper.
- The significance of a Galois extension is that it has a Galois group and obeys the fundamental theorem of Galois theory.
Synonyms of significance
Forms of significance
| plural | significances |
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Origin of significance
Inherited from Middle English significaunce, from Middle French significance, from Old French significance, from Latin significantia. Doublet of signifiance.
Words formed from significance
Phrases with significance
Questions about significance
- What does significance mean?
- Significance means the extent to which something matters; importance.
- What is significance in Tamil?
- Significance in Tamil is பொருள் (poruḷ), அர்த்தம் (arttam). See Significance meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is significance?
- Significance is a noun.
- How do you pronounce significance?
- Significance is pronounced /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkəns/ (UK).
- What is the plural of significance?
- The plural of significance is significances.
Words near significance in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: significance (page history and authors); significance (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); significance (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); significance (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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