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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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Access to self-expression that is "syntactically and connotatively meaningful" (Boland 24) without being self-contradictory thus becomes an impossibility and what Lorde does instead is to negotiate a mode of expression that requires a different mode of reception on the part of the reader, a mode in which one can let syntax and connotation function in alternative ways.
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The question of imperialism is slippery and connotatively loaded.
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