Definition of significance

"significance" in the noun sense

1. significance

the quality of being significant

"do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power"

2. significance, import, implication

a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred

"the significance of his remark became clear only later"

"the expectation was spread both by word and by implication"

3. meaning, significance, signification, import

the message that is intended or expressed or signified

"what is the meaning of this sentence"

"the significance of a red traffic light"

"the signification of Chinese characters"

"the import of his announcement was ambiguous"

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Quotations for significance

Very few men understand the true significance of contentment; women alone illustrate it. [ Mme. Deluzy ]

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. [ Goethe ]

What is to me important you regard as a trifle, and what puts me out has with you no significance. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The old saying is expressed with depth and significance: On the pinnacle of fortune man does not long stand firm. [ Goethe ]

Cheerfulness is full of significance; it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature. [ Charles Kingsley ]

Nothing on earth is without significance, but the first and most essential in every matter is the place where and the hour when. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's use. [ J. G. Holland ]

Unconsciousness belongs to pure unmixed life; consciousness, to a diseased mixture and conflict of life and death; unconsciousness is the sign of creation; consciousness, at best, that of manufacture. So deep, in this existence of ours, is the significance of mystery. [ Carlyle ]

Why has the beneficent Creator scattered over the face of the earth such a profusion of beautiful flowers? Why is it that every landscape has its appropriate flowers, every nation its national flowers, every rural home its home flowers? Why do flowers enter and shed their perfume over every scene of life, from the cradle to the grave? Why are flowers made to utter all voices of joy and sorrow in all varying scenes? It is that flowers have in themselves a real and natural significance; they have a positive relation to man; they correspond to actual emotions; they have their mission - a mission of love and mercy; they have their language, and from the remotest ages this language has found its interpreters. [ Henrietta Dumont ]

This is my seventieth birthday, and I wonder if you all rise to the size of that proposition, realizing all the significance of that phrase, seventieth birthday. The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach--unrebuked. You can tell the world how you got there. It is what they all do. You shall never get tired of telling by what delicate arts and deep moralities you climbed up to that great place. You will explain the process and dwell on the particulars with senile rapture. I have been anxious to explain my own system this long time, and now at last I have the right. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

significance in Scrabble®

The word significance is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 20

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters significance:

SIGNIFICANCE
(198)
SIGNIFICANCE
(198)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (13 words)

accinge, asinine, canines, ceasing, facings, faining, fancies, fencing, fiances, finance, finings, niacins, siccing

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word significance

SIGNIFICANCE
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In significance

SIGNIFICANCE
(198)
SIGNIFICANCE
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SIGNIFICANCE
(132)
SIGNIFICANCE
(132)
SIGNIFICANCE
(108)
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SIGNIFICANCE
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FIANCES
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FINANCE
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ACCINGE
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ACCINGE
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FENCING
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FENCING
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CEASING
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FINANCE
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ACCINGE
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FENCING
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FANCIES
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ACCINGE
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SICCING
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FACINGS
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ACCINGE
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ACCINGE
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FINANCE
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CEASING
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FIANCES
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NIACINS
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CANINES
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FANCIES
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NIACINS
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FIANCES
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significance in Words With Friends™

The word significance is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 25

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters significance:

SIGNIFICANCE
(369)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (13 words)

accinge, asinine, canines, ceasing, facings, faining, fancies, fencing, fiances, finance, finings, niacins, siccing

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word significance

SIGNIFICANCE
(369)
SIGNIFICANCE
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SIGNIFICANCE
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In significance

SIGNIFICANCE
(369)
SIGNIFICANCE
(333)
SIGNIFICANCE
(261)
SIGNIFICANCE
(261)
SIGNIFICANCE
(186)
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(174)
FACINGS
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(120)
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(119 = 84 + 35)
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ACCINGE
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FINANCE
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SIGNIFICANCE
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(108)
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ACCINGE
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FIANCES
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SIGNIFICANCE
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SIGNIFICANCE
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9 letter words in significance (1 word)

12 letter words in significance (1 word)

significance + 1 blank (1 word)

significance + 2 blanks (2 words)

Words containing the sequence significance

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