I have already explained the connotation attached by our philosophers to the words Prakriti and Sakti.
For the description of feelings, words with a rich emotional connotation are important.
Such a word is said to have a rich emotional connotation because it arouses strong feeling.
It also has a rich intellectual connotationsince it calls up many associated images.
A single word with the wrong connotation may seriously affect the tone of a paragraph.
Many attempts have been made in the course of the nineteenth century to give a generally satisfactory answer to this difficult question of the content and connotation of the idea of the organic individual.
Both ideas are extremely ambiguous: their content and connotation are described in the most various ways by the representatives of science.
The word body denotes that the nature of which it is to be the attribute of a soul, and thus extends in its connotation up to the soul.
The range of literary excellence, of spiritual connotation and of intelligibility of subject matter in the so-called Gnostic hymns is so wide that it is difficult to evaluate them.
Its connotation has no doubt extended gradually until it seems often to be rather a compendium of all goodness than any one virtue in particular.
The specific difference is that which must be added to the connotation of the genus to complete the connotation of the species.
In fact, every word originally connoting simply existence, gradually enlarges its connotation to mean separate existence, i.
Sometimes a name has a technical as well as an ordinary connotation (e.
But every concrete general name should be given a definite connotation with the least possible change in the denotation; and this is what is aimed at in every definition of a general name already in use.
In short, the connotation differs, on the two sides, in both equations alike.
The connotation is, in general, increasing and the denotation, that is, the range of application, is narrowing.
Thus we have identity of denotation with difference of connotation in each of these equations, and they are so far homogeneous with each other.
By stripping a word of the connotation and denotation which it shows in many contexts, there is left, as it were, a common denominator; and it is as a result of this logical operation that we assign a meaning to a detached and isolated word.
The larger the connotation the smaller the denotation, and vice versa.
It is, in short, the meaning or connotation that is the main thing.
In effect, Mill's doctrine of Connotation helped to fix a conception of the general name first dimly suggested by Aristotle when he recognised that names of genera and species signify Quality, in showing what sort a thing is.
If we apply the word connotation to signify merely the suggestion of an attribute in whatever grammatical connexion, then an abstract name is undoubtedly as much connotative as an adjective.
Footnote 4: Strictly speaking, as I have tried to indicate all along, the words Connotation and Denotation, or Extension and Intension, apply only to general names.
We shall see presently that if we wish to make the connotation or concept clear we must run over the denotation or class, that is to say, the objects to which the general name is applied in common usage.
It is just possible to increase the connotation without decreasing the denotation, to thicken or deepen the concept without diminishing the class.
But all the time the connotation of animal, house, or fly remains the same: the word does not change its meaning.
Again, as a rule, if you increase the connotation you contract the area within which the name is applicable.
To ascertain the actual connotation we must run over the actual denotation.
Whether connotationwas the best term to use for this purpose, rather than extension, may be questioned: but at least it was in the line of tradition through Occam.
Connotation and Denotation are often said to vary inversely in quantity.
Strictly speaking it is notative rather than connotative: it cannot be said to have a connotation because it is itself the symbol of what is called the connotation of a general name.
This is the signification of the general name logically, its connotation or concept, the identical element of objective reference in all uses of a general name.
It is obvious that to avoid error and confusion, the meaning or connotation of names, the concepts, should somehow be fixed: names cannot otherwise have an identical reference in human intercourse.
And I do not see how its place in my argument can be gainsaid by any opponent, except at the cost of ignoring my distinction between connotation as receptual and conceptual.
To do this I will begin by quoting an instance of un-denominative or receptual connotation in the case of a young child.
Moreover, receptual connotation admits of many degrees before we can discern the smallest reason for supposing that it is even in the lowest degree conceptual.
Lower Recepts, comprising the mental life of all the lower animals, and so including such powers of receptual connotation as a child when first emerging from infancy shares with a parrot.
Why should denotation thus always require to precede denomination—or receptual connotation thus always require to precede conceptual predication—unless it be that the one is a further and a continuous development of the other?
The consequence is that connotation may then no longer represent the merely spontaneous expression of likeness receptually perceived: it may become the intentional expression of likeness conceptually thought out.
Now, we have already seen that pre-conceptual connotation amounts to what I have termed pre-conceptual judgment.
All words have their connotations, but this is connotation and more; it is a pictorial representation of something implied, and, lacking which, an effect would be lost.
This was to become the first war of the civilization of illiteracy: a highly efficient (the word takes on an unintended cynical connotation here) activity that involved non-sequential, massively parallel practical experiences.
This movement, in Italy, was begun by a group of men who called themselves Futurists and, if that name can be dissociated from the connotation that is given to it when applied to art, I see no objection to it.
The word has suddenly come into wide-spread use and it is being given the connotation of socialism.
What is connoted by the term master is here the essential idea, that which is bound up with the idea connoted by servant; while the connotation of man or biped sinks into the character of an accessory or accompaniment.
Their diversity ofconnotation is obviously inherent in their sound; and yet, though the difference may be heard at once, it seems inexplicable by the intellect.
But by far the greatest number of stylistic words owe their connotation not so much to their sound alone, as to their capacity for evoking memories.
But those who use it seldom give themselves the trouble to analyse the connotation of this term.
So far the term "instinctive" has a restricted biological connotation in terms of behaviour.
The value of such names when skillfully used is that by their associations and connotation they do stir feeling.
Give two examples of words whose denotation is fixed, but whose connotation or emotional implications would be different with different people.
Closely related to this kind of ambiguity, and in practice still more insidious, is the ambiguity which arises from the connotation or emotional implications of words.
We must 'think away' a great deal of the modern connotation of the word.
But the application of glass to windows, especially when coloured and stained glass is in question, to say nothing of work in mosaic, is usually, although not always, held to lie outside this narrower connotation of the word.
Thus, when reading in my deck chair or when talking with others, practically any mention of any part of the world I knew instantly aroused the connotation of drinking and good fellows.
When I thought of fellowship, theconnotation was alcohol.
When I thought of alcohol, the connotation was fellowship.
The term lamb's wool as used in the knitting industry does not confine its connotation to the product of the lamb during its first six months of growth, although such yarns would naturally be included in the first scope of the term.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "connotation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
