connotationaladj.
/kɒnəʊˈteɪʃənəl/ Involving connotation.
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the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > connotation > [adjective]
connotative1614
consignificant1635
connotational1947
1947 Jrnl. Clin. Psychopath. 8 883 Connotational tendencies..are best expressed symbolically in poetry and in dreams.
1957 Sound & Poetry 138 Word-repetition..repeats the..word as a primary structural factor with the same denotational semantic spectrum but with connotational spectra forced on it by its contextual environment.
1965 Language 41 157 Determinational relations (and connotational ones, since they are inverse to one another) answer to the question [etc.].
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