Quotes About Connotation

Names with indeterminate connotation are not to be confounded with names which have more than one connotation, that is to say, ambiguous words.

The only names of objects which connote nothing are proper names; and these have, strictly speaking, no signification.

The same situation of stimulus called by a different name is a different stimulus. Roller coasters are fun but bumpy plane rides are not!

In molti libri americani, "democrazia" aveva una connotazione fortemente negativa. A Jefferson la parola non piaceva; come governo, la democrazia era invisa a tutti i Padri fondatori.

There's a negative connotation to internet trolls, but at the same time this is becoming mainstream. This kind of speech pattern, the way people speak, this is common on the internet.

annihilated" and "exterminated," even though such phraseology had an old history in Germany and had often been used when no mass murder of Jews had yet been envisioned

as if the word was a euphemism for some kind of infection.

Anything means something if you impose meaning on it, which in itself is a meaningless thing, the imposition.

Why do so many frown so sternly at the idea of having fun? Perhaps out of fear that it connotes you aren't serious. But best as we can tell, there is no correlation between appearing to be serious and actually being good at what you do. In fact an argument can be made that the opposite is true.

A rose may be a rose may be a rose; but not this one. Clearly it stands for something more.

Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.

I know a flute player is technically called a "flautist," but something about it sounds a little sketchy, as does "pianist," so I will refrain.

This was their way; a lot was said by saying nothing. She

You can make something mean anything you want. And you can spend a great deal of time and effort choosing your words and allusions and quotations carefully and hardly anyone will even notice or get it anyway.

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

I had this idea that being an introvert was a negative thing, that it had a negative connotation, and I really wanted, as a young person, to strive to be the life of the party and to be really outgoing and to have a million friends. And then I realized that an introvert isn't a negative.

I think YouTube used to have a negative connotation, like it was the place where the rejects went and made careers, but I'm proud to be YouTuber. I wanted to be in that first generation of YouTube stars who transitioned into the 'real world.' It was a really good way to build my business.

People want to evolve the idea of the word "mini-series." Mini-series has an '80s connotation to it.

What we call a symbol is a term, a name, or even a picture that may be familiar in daily life, yet that possesses specific connotations in addition to its conventional and obvious meaning. It implies something vague, unknown, or hidden from us.

Thus a word or an image is symbolic when it implies something more than its obvious and immediate meaning.

Here is the difference, nationalism has a certain connotation in Europe, which is not necessarily positive, but I think in Asia, nationalism is seen very much as a sort of natural corollary to economic progress, almost like you're independent, you progress, you are prosperous and nationalism comes with all of that.

No son las palabras, ¡es lo que implica!

Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars.