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connotation

Additional meaning or meanings carried by a word which exceed the obvious or literal definition. The most common usage is in metaphor.

Calling someone a ‘sloth’, instead of meaning that the person looks like a sloth, uses the connotation of that animal with its characteristic slow movement, thus the metaphor is employed to suggest that the person is also slow moving.



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: beauty, and as we have demonstrated thus far, beauty is connotatively linked to gender normativity that articulates through race and class codings.
One may also add that his milieu (the Castilian plains of Spain, so loaded and rich a cinematic locale) is resolutely rural and connotatively timeless whereas Antonioni's tended to the urban, and to specific, localized contemporaneity.
The question of imperialism is slippery and connotatively loaded.
 
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