What does "significance" mean?
Significance: That which is signified; meaning; import; as, the significance of a nod, of a motion of the hand, or of a word or expression.
Additional senses
- 2.Importance; moment; weight; consequence. With this brain I must work, in order to give significancy and value to the few facts which I possess. De Quincey.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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